Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B14: Authorization requirements for importing certain products 

Date when the measure came into force

29 April 2016 

Publication where the measure is specified

The Malawi Gazette Supplement, dated 29th April, 2016, containing Acts, No. 10 of 2016 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Metrology Act, 2016. 

Country/Region applying the measure

Malawi 

Coded list of objectives

X: For purposes n.e.s. 

Description of the measure

28.-( 1 ) Subject to subsection (2), a person shall not-
(a) import into Malawi any instrument which has not been duly-pattern approved according to international recommendations and not accepted by the Malawi Bureau of Standards as satisfying the requirements for verification. 

Reference of the measure

Section 28 (1) (a) 

Measure also domestic

No 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Instruments 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.