Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

A14: Authorization requirement for sanitary and phytosanitary reasons for importing certain products 

Date when the measure came into force

07 December 1979 

Publication where the measure is specified

Laws of Botswana Chapter 43:08 Control of Goods, Prices and Other Charges: Subsidiary Legislation 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Control of Goods (Importation of Eggs and Poultry Meat) Regulations 

Country/Region applying the measure

Botswana 

The rationale of the measure

None specified 

Coded list of objectives

X: For purposes n.e.s. 

Description of the measure

3. Restriction on importation of eggs and poultry meat
No person shall import eggs or poultry meat except under and in accordance with a
written permit issued under these Regulations by the Minister for the time being responsible for
agriculture or by a person authorized by him in that behalf:
Provided that a person may, without a permit issued under these Regulations, import for
consumption by himself or his immediate family not more than 36 eggs and 5 kg of poultry meat
at any one time. 

Reference of the measure

Article 3 

Measure also domestic

No 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

eggs of domestic fowl
poultry meat 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.