Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

P5: State-trading enterprises, for exporting; other selective export channels 

Date when the measure came into force

01 April 1962 

Publication where the measure is specified

The Hides and Skins (Export Duty) Act. CAP 339 

Regulation where the measure is specified

The Hides and Skins (Export Duty) Act. CAP 339 

Country/Region applying the measure

Uganda 

Coded list of objectives

B: Protection of life and health of animals 

Description of the measure

2. Duty to be paid.
There shall be paid to the commissioner of customs and excise at the time and place of export the export duty set out in the First Schedule to this Act in respect of every hide, skin or game hide exported from Uganda; except that no export duty shall be payable upon any item set out in the Second Schedule to this Act.
s.2. - Rates of export duty

Exemptions from export duty.
1. Pickled, partly or wholly tanned hides and skins.
2. Cattle masks, pizzles and sinews.
3. Glue-stock, that is to say, hides or skins which fall within any of the
following categories—
(a) dry cattle hides (whether suspension or ground dried or dry salted), weighing more than four pounds when air dry, which have been cut into pieces not greater in size than one-quarter of the whole;
(b) air-dried sheepskins, goatskins and calfskins (whether suspension or ground dried or dry salted), weighing less than four pounds when air dry, which have been cut transversely from flank edge to flank edge into pieces not greater in size than one-half of the whole;
(c) wet salted cattle hides which have been cut into pieces not greater in size than one-quarter of the whole, and which carry a certificate by the exporter that they are glue-stock within the meaning of this item.
4. Any game hide obtained by any person under a licence issued to him or her under the Game (Preservation and Control) Act, where that person satisfies the chief game warden that the game hide is not intended to be sold and obtains from the chief game warden a certificate to that effect. 

Reference of the measure

Regulation 2 ;
s.2 First Schedule
s.2. - Second Schedule ( 1-4) 

Measure also domestic

Yes 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

hides, skin or game hide 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.