WTO Quantitative Restrictions

Australia #3360 (v.2)

Base data

Notified in
Version validity
30/09/2020 - 28/09/2022
Old version v.2
Reporting member
Australia
In force from
End date
In force
General description
Industrial chemicals
National legal basis
Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment)
Regulations 1990, regulation 11C
Administrative mechanism
The export of the industrial chemicals mentioned is prohibited unless the Director, National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme (NICNAS Director) has given written approval for the export at or before the time of the proposed export.

The import and manufacture of the industrial chemicals mentioned in (a), (f), (g), (h), (i) or (j) is prohibited unless the NICNAS Director has given written approval for its introduction at or before the time of the proposed introduction.

The introduction of the industrial chemical mentioned in paragraph (e) is prohibited unless:
(a) the NICNAS Director has given written approval for its introduction at or before the time of the proposed introduction; or
(b) the industrial chemical is introduced in aviation gasoline(avgas), or for use in the production of avgas; or
(c) the industrial chemical is introduced:
(i) in leaded fuel; and
(ii) by a person in respect of whom an approval granted under subsection 13(1) of the Fuel Quality Standards Act 2000 is in force at the time of the introduction; and
(iii) for the purpose of a supply that is specified in the approval.

Where fuel has the meaning given by subregulation 3(2) of the Fuel Quality Standards Regulations 2001 and supply has the meaning given by subsection 4(1) of the Fuel Quality Standards Act 2000.
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
Non-WTO commitments

Rotterdam Convention

Reported as: Annex III of the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade (the Rotterdam Convention).
Affected partners
Non-affected partners

Measures

Reported restrictions
NAL; NAL-X
Symbol
NAL
NAL-X

Tariff lines
Various
(i) hexabromobiphenyl;
(ii) octabromobiphenyl;
(iii) decabromobiphenyl;
(c) polychlorinated biphenyls;
(d) polychlorinated terphenyls;
(e) tetraethyl lead;
(f) tetramethyl lead;
(g) commercial pentabromodiphenyl ether (including tetrabromodiphenyl ether and pentabromodiphenyl ether);
(h) commercial octabromodiphenyl ether (including hexabromodiphenyl ether and heptabromodiphenyl ether);
(i) perfluorooctane sulfonic acid;
(j) perfluorooctane sulfonates, perfluorooctane sulfonamides and perfluorooctane sulfonyls, including the following:
(i) potassium perfluorooctane sulfonate;
(ii) lithium perfluorooctane sulfonate;
(iii) ammonium perfluorooctane sulfonate;
(iv) diethanolammonium perfluorooctane sulfonate;
(v) tetraethylammonium perfluorooctane sulfonate;
(vi) didecyldimethylammonium perfluorooctane sulfonate;
(vii) N ethylperfluorooctane sulfonamide;
(viii) N methylperfluorooctane sulfonamide;
(ix) N ethyl N (2hydroxyethyl) perfluorooctane sulfonamide;
(x) N (2 hydroxyethyl) N methylperfluorooctane sulfonamide;
(xi) perfluorooctane sulfonyl fluoride.
(a) each of the following kinds of polybrominated biphenyls:
(a) each of the following kinds of p...
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(b) tris (2,3 dibromopropyl) phosphate;
(a) each of the following kinds of polybrominated biphenyls: