Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B14: Authorization requirements for importing certain products 

Date when the measure came into force

26 January 2007 

Publication where the measure is specified

The Zanzibar Food, Drugs and Cosmetics ACT, NO.2 OF 2006 

Regulation where the measure is specified

The Zanzibar Food, Drugs and Cosmetics Act 2006 

Country/Region applying the measure

Tanzania 

Coded list of objectives

A: Protection of human life and health 

Description of the measure

74.(1) No person, other than a person issued with a licence or permit under the provisions of this Act, may import or export into Zanzibar any drugs, medical devices, herbal drugs or poisons.
(2) Subject to subsection (1) of this section, the Board may if it is in the public interest so to do, authorise parallel importation of any drug.
(7) In this section ''parallel importation'' means importing a drug into the country without authorization of the drug registration holder from another country where it is legitimately placed.
Reference of the measure 

Reference of the measure

Part IV Regulation 74 (1); (2) & (7) 

Measure also domestic

No 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Drugs 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.