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

26 March 1954 

Publication where the measure is specified

The Control of Goods Act 

Regulation where the measure is specified

THE CONTROL OF GOODS (IMPORT AND EXPORT) (AGRICULTURE) ORDER 

Country/Region applying the measure

Zambia 

Coded list of objectives

A: Protection of human life and health 

Description of the measure

3.(1) The issuing authority may issue a permit authorising, subject to the provisions of this Order and of any other written law- (a) the import into the Republic of Zambia of any goods listed in the Second Schedule; on such terms and conditions as may be specified in, or attached to, the permit.
3. (2) A permit issued under this paragraph shall-(a) if it relates to the import of goods into the Republic of Zambia, be in Form No. 1
4. (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-paragraph (2), no person shall import into the Republic of Zambia any goods listed in the Second Schedule except in accordance with the terms and conditions of a permit issued under paragraph 3.
4. (2) The provisions of sub-paragraph (1) shall not apply in relation to-
(a) any goods which are in the course of transit through the Republic of Zambia to a place beyond the borders thereof;
(b) any goods not exceeding twenty thousand kwacha in value which are imported in any one week into the Republic of Zambia by an individual residing in the Republic of Zambia for his personal domestic consumption and not for sale or disposal to any other person;
(c) any goods not exceeding twenty thousand kwacha in value which are imported in any one week into the Republic of Zambia as a bona fide gift from a person residing outside the Republic of Zambia to a person residing in the Republic of Zambia.
4. (3) Any person importing maize meal, including hominy chop, maize cones, maize grits, maize offals, processed maize with or without additives and maleie hydrazide, also known as M.H., shall require an import permit in relation to goods-
(a) which are in the course of transit through the Republic of Zambia to a place beyond the borders; or
(b) which are exported under an export permit issued under the principal Order if the exporter satisfies the Ministry responsible for agriculture, food and fisheries, that such exporter has, on the basis and by reason of his having been earlier issued with such export permit, incurred a contractual and legally enforceable obligation prior to the publication of this Order.
(As amended by S.I. No. 96 of 1995) 

Reference of the measure

Ministerial Order 3(1a) ; 3(2a); 4 (1,2,3) Page 15
FIRST SCHEDULE : FORMS OF PERMITS
FORM No. 1 :IMPORT PERMIT
SECOND SCHEDULE - GOODS FOR THE IMPORT OF WHICH A PERMIT ISSUED UNDER PARAGRAPH 3 IS REQUIRED. 

Measure also domestic

No 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.