Non-Tariff Barriers

Complaint

Complaint number

NTB-000-399  

NTB Type

7.3. Corruption  

Complaint

Lake harvest company was refused to export fish using kariba bridge on this particular date yet they were allowed to do so ,the man who was on interpol this day wanted some money from this company as bribe ,after refusal he denied to stamp the gate pass, this led to the fish to be bad and it was 4tonnes,all that fish perished as they took long in negitiating  

Status note

At the 9th meeting of the SADC Sub-committee on trade facilitation, Zimbabwe reported that complaints relating to bribery should be reported immediately to the officer in charge for traceability and immediate action besides the online system for transparency. This could have been a once off incidence  

Progress update note

This issue was discussed by the National Monitoring Committee at their workshop held on 21 July in Harare which noted that such incidences do occur and proposed that the concerned authorities, namely Police Department and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce take up the matter for investigation with a view to putting in place systems for detterement of such practices in future.  

Policy or regulatory NTB

No 

Location

Zimbabwe: kariba border post (Government institution)  

Reporting Country or Region

Zimbabwe  

Country specific trade issue

No  

Date of incident

2011-02-21  

Status

Resolved  

Date of resolution

2012-03-28  

Product Description

fresh fish ,frozen

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Total value

0  

Date reported

2011-02-25 15:20  

Modified

2012-03-28 07:17