WTO Quantitative Restrictions

Australia #3342 (v.3)

Base data

Notified in
Version validity
28/09/2022 - present
Current active version v.3
Reporting member
Australia
In force from
End date
In force
General description
Radioactive waste
National legal basis
Regulation 13G of the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations 1958.
Administrative mechanism
The following countries are PIDCs for the purposes of the Waigani Convention:
• Cook Islands;
• Fiji;
• Kiribati;
• Marshall Islands, Republic of;
• Nauru;
• Niue;
• Palau, Republic of;
• Papua New Guinea;
• Solomon Islands;
• Tonga;
• Tuvalu;
• Vanuatu; and
• Western Samoa.
Radioactive waste exports to a PIDC may only be exported if approved by the Minister for Industry or an authorised person.
Responsible entities
HS version
HS 2022
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Meta data

WTO justifications

XX:(b) - (b) necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health;

GATT 1994 (GATT 1947 provisions)

Reported as: Article XX(b) of the GATT; Convention to Ban the Importation into Forum Countries of Hazardous and Radioactive Wastes and to Control the Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes within the South Pacific Region (the Waigani Convention)
Non-WTO commitments

Waigani Convention on hazardous wastes

Reported as: Convention to Ban the Importation into Forum Countries of Hazardous and Radioactive Wastes and to Control the Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes within the South Pacific Region (the Waigani Convention)
Affected partners
Solomon Islands, Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Vanuatu, Marshall Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Tuvalu, Samoa
Non-affected partners

Measures

Reported restrictions
CP-X
Symbol
CP-X

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Various
Export of radioactive waste to Pacific Island Developing Countries