Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

A21: Tolerance limits for residues of or contamination by certain (non-microbiological) substances 

Date when the measure came into force

18 June 1994 

Publication where the measure is specified

Government Notice No. 102 of 1994 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Excise Regulations 1994 

Country/Region applying the measure

Mauritius 

The rationale of the measure

No specific objective stated 

Coded list of objectives

X: For purposes n.e.s. 

Description of the measure

102(2) No person shall sell or store rum, local rum or compounded spirits if they contain any lead, copper or arsenic the upper limits of which exceed—
(a) in the case of lead, five-tenths of a part per million;
(b) in the case of copper, two parts per million;
(c) in the case of arsenic, two-tenths of a part per million. 

Reference of the measure

Sub-article 102(2) 

Measure also domestic

No 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Rum and compounded spirits 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

Entire world