Nicaragua 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
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Nicaragua
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10/12/2024
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2024-2026
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Nicaragua
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30/09/2022
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2022-2024
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Nicaragua
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03/11/2020
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2020-2022
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Nicaragua
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30/09/2018
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2018-2020
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Nicaragua
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14/11/2016
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2016-2018
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Nicaragua
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22/09/2014
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2014-2016
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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/404/Rev.1
A. Import prohibitions and restrictions and import licensing
3.39.
Nicaragua bans imports of certain products with the aim of protecting the environment and human health, protecting species, and for security reasons, in conformity with its domestic legislation or international commitments.
3.40.
Nicaragua has notified the WTO Committee on Import Licensing of the licensing system in use for the administration of its import tariff quotas; its latest notification does not mention any other cases in which import licences are required.[87] However, imports of some categories of products are subject to a licensing/prior authorization regime applied for the purpose of protecting the public and/or national interest, or for health or public security reasons. In this connection, special permits are required to import chemicals (raw materials) for industrial use; synthetic pesticides (National Commission for the Registration and Control of Toxic Substances); animal feed, pesticides and fertilizers (Ministry of Agriculture); firearms, explosives and other related materials (National Police); foodstuffs, medicines and controlled substances (Ministry of Health); and X‑ray equipment (National Atomic Energy Commission). The importation of citrus planting material that could harbour the bacterium Candidatus Liberibacter spp. has to be approved by the official responsible for quarantine control at the border post where the material is cleared through customs.
3.41.
Telecommunications equipment entering Nicaragua must be cleared through customs solely and exclusively in the customs warehouses authorized by the DGA in the city of Managua, for prior inspection and approval by the Nicaraguan Institute of Telecommunications and Postal Services (TELCOR). The list of the items in question includes 152 groups of equipment and accessories.
3.42.
Nicaragua also uses a non‑automatic import licensing system for the management of tariff quotas.
B. Export prohibitions and restrictions
3.56.
Nicaragua bans exports of: roundwood of forest species, timber and sawn wood[93]; lobsters during their reproductive phase or when moulting or spawning (with eggs) or with a sperm receptacle; Caribbean spiny lobsters (panulirus argus), which require a classification of at least five ounces of tail to be marketed; Pacific lobsters (panurilus gracilis), which require a classification of at least three ounces of tail to be marketed; estuary shrimps in the larval or juvenile phase; and sawfish and bull shark (carcharhinus leucas). In accordance with its international environmental and public health commitments, the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (MARENA) can authorize exports of toxic waste when there is no adequate procedure in Nicaragua to render it harmless or destroy it, subject to prior express consent from the receiving country to destroy the waste on its territory.[94]
3.57.
Green coffee exporters must, as part of the process, register their sales contracts in advance and submit a coffee quality export certificate (issued by the National Coffee Council (CONACAFE)), together with a certificate of origin from the International Coffee Organization (ICO). CETREX maintains an online database which can be used to make searches for export requirements by product, and which shows the documents required.[95] According to the notification made by the authorities to the WTO, Nicaragua does not issue export licences within the context of free trade agreements that stipulate bilateral tariff quotas.[96]
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.