Morocco Member profile
Status of notification in the reporting periods
2010-2012
2012-2014
2014-2016
2016-2018
2018-2020
2020-2022
2022-2024
2024-2026
Notification information
Types of restrictions
All biennial periods and all notifications
Top 10 HS chapters notified
All biennial periods and all notifications
Top 10 WTO justifications notified
All biennial periods and all notifications
Top 10 Non-WTO commitments notified
All biennial periods and all notifications
QR details
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Trade policy review
Latest Trade Policy Review (Report by the WTO Secretariat): WT/TPR/S/329/Rev.1
A. Import prohibitions and restrictions and import licensing
3.52.
Imports are subject to various regulations, grouped by ADII on its website, by Harmonized System (HS) tariff line (ADIL system).
3.53.
Some products are subject to administrative formalities and special regulations in order to "safeguard public morals, public safety and order, human health or to protect fauna and flora, the national historical, archaeological and artistic heritage or to maintain the country's external financial position".[80] An import licence is required for the purpose. Applications for import licences are submitted electronically via the PortNet single window and are issued electronically by the Ministry responsible for foreign trade, subject to an opinion from the relevant technical department (Table 3.10).
B. Export prohibitions and restrictions
3.106.
Pursuant to current legislation, exports of goods and services may be subject to restrictions in order to safeguard public morals, security, public order and human health; to protect fauna and flora and the national historical, archaeological and artistic heritage, and to maintain the country's external financial position.[150]
3.107.
Since Morocco's previous TPR, several changes have been made to the list of products subject to authorization, quantitative restrictions and export licensing. The list includes cereals (except rice), charcoal, collections and specimens for various zoological, botanical, mineralogical and archaeological collections, antiques over 100 years old, ozone‑depleting substances and equipment[151], wheat and meslin, rye, barley, oats, maize, rice, grain sorghum and other cereals, as well as groats and semolina of wheat and barley.[152]
3.108.
The following products have been added to the list since 2009: bulbs, including saffron bulbs, grains, almonds and argan trees (including seed), crude algae and modified agar‑agar, candy sugar and other sugars in packages of less than 50 kg, asbestos, metal waste and debris[153], insecticides containing methyl bromide, compressors, refrigerators and freezers using R12 or R115 and extinguishers containing halon gases.[154] Tanned hides and skins or crust leather of bovine animals, sheep and goats were removed from the list in December 2006. Export licences are issued by the Minister responsible for foreign trade and are valid for six months.[155] The decision on whether or not to grant a licence is notified to the applicant within a maximum period of 30 days and the reasons for rejection of any application must be given.[156] In practice, the time taken to notify the decision on granting an export licence is less than eight days.
3.109.
Under multilateral agreements such as CITES and the Basel Convention, some products, waste and/or species are subject to an export permit, certificate or ban. For example, endangered species of wild fauna and flora (Annexes I, II and III to the CITES) require an export permit or a re‑export certificate.[157] These permits or certificates are issued by the Water Resources and Forestry Department. The export of waste in list A of the Basel Convention requires prior authorization from the Department responsible for the environment.
WTO's environmental database (EDB)
The EDB contains environment-related measures that may qualify as QRs and therefore should be notified under the QR Decision.