Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

P9: Export measures n.e.s. 

Date when the measure came into force

01 April 2015 

Publication where the measure is specified

Statutory Instruments no.54 of 2000, the customs and excise Act Cap 322 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Regulations Sl. S4 of 2000. Updated in April 2015: The customs and excise (General) regulations, 2000 

Country/Region applying the measure

Zambia 

Coded list of objectives

X: For purposes n.e.s. 

Description of the measure

31 (2) Subject to Regulation 19, the entry of goods for export at exportation shall be effected by the payment, within five working days, of the duty due on the goods at the time of presentation of the entry of the goods or the registration of the entry of the good on the Customs Computer System.
(3) A separate bill of entry shall, except in such circumstances as the
Commissioner ––General may permit, be delivered in respect of each consignment of goods exported that the Commissioner ––General, determines constitutes a separate consignment.
(4) Where an exporter is unable, when effecting the entry of goods, to present an invoice or other document required to be produced in terms of subsection (5) of section forty-seven of the Act, an officer may, pending the production of the invoice or other document, accept a monetary deposit sufficient to safeguard the revenue and shall, thereafter, allow entry of the goods to be made
31(5) Subject to paragraph (a) of sub ––regulation (1), any goods entered for export shall be required to exit from Zambia within five working days from their date of entry.
(7) Except in such circumstances as the Commissioner ––General may permits, an entry of goods for export shall not be made without a taxpayer identification number
48. A con(2) Subject to Regulation 19, the entry of goods for export at exportation shall be effected by the payment, within five working days, of the duty due on the goods at the time of presentation of the entry of the goods or the registration of the entry of the good on the Customs Computer System.
(3) A separate bill of entry shall, except in such circumstances as the
Commissioner ––General may permit, be delivered in respect of each consignment of goods exported that the Commissioner ––General, determines constitutes a separate consignment.
(4) Where an exporter is unable, when effecting the entry of goods, to present an invoice or other document required to be produced in terms of subsection (5) of section forty-seven of the Act, an officer may, pending the production of the invoice or other document, accept a monetary deposit sufficient to safeguard the revenue and shall, thereafter, allow entry of the goods to be made tainer of all goods to be removed or exported in bond shall, Before removal or exportation, be marked conspicuously with the words ““In Bond””subject to the nature of the container and as the circumstances permit. 

Reference of the measure

Part V 31 (2-5),(7) and Part VI Para 8 

Measure also domestic

No 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Exports 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.