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/453/Rev.1
A. Import prohibitions and restrictions and import licensing
3.64.
Morocco maintains prohibitions and restrictions on the import of certain goods, mainly for reasons of security and public order, of health and of the environment, to safeguard morality, protect the national historical, archaeological and artistic heritage, or maintain the country's external financial position.[120] Certain products are subject to formalities that require an import licence. Applications for import licences are submitted online via the PortNet single window and issued electronically by the Ministry responsible for foreign trade, subject to an opinion from the relevant technical department. Licences are free, with an average issuance time of four days (Table 3.13). Source: Information provided by the authorities.
B. Export prohibitions and restrictions
3.80.
Pursuant to current legislation, exports of goods and services may be subject to restrictions 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.[133]
3.81.
According to the authorities, cereals are considered staple food products and require an export license for reasons of national food security. Sugar and soft-wheat flour licences are in place to ensure that domestic consumer subsidies for these products are refunded. Domestic prices for these essential and commonly consumed products are subsidized for social reasons. Export is only permitted if the subsidy for the domestic consumer price is refunded.
3.82.
Products subject to authorization, quantitative restrictions and export licences include the following: saffron bulbs, almonds and argan nuts; chickpeas; dried legumes; cereals; olives; olive oil; preserved olives; flours from cereal grains (except rice); groats and meal of soft wheat; groats and meal of barley; crude algae and agar-agar; argan oil; sugar; asbestos; pesticides and other harmful chemical products; plastic waste; raw and wet-blue hides and skins (cattle, horses, sheep, goats); charcoal; used carpets, used wooden furniture, used mattresses and bedding, and household appliances (to prevent the spread of bed bugs); ferrous and non-ferrous waste; lead; gases that deplete the ozone layer; pharmaceutical products; antiseptic preparations; waste and scrap paper and cardboard; halon-gas fire extinguishers; collections and specimens for zoological, botanical, mineralogical and anatomical collections; collector's items of historical, archaeological, palaeontological, ethnographic and numismatic interest; and antiques that are over 100 years old. Export licences are issued electronically via PortNet and are valid for six months.[134] The applicant is notified of the decision to grant or refuse a licence within a maximum period of 30 days and the reasons for the rejection of any application must be given.
3.83.
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. These permits and certificates are issued by the Department of Water Resources and Forestry. 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.