WTO Quantitative Restrictions

United Kingdom #6494 (v.3)

Base data

Notified in
Version validity
30/09/2024 - present
Current active version v.3
Reporting member
United Kingdom
In force from
End date
In force
General description
Prohibition on anti-personnel land mines.
National legal basis
Landmines Act 1998.

Available through:
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/33/pdfs/ukpga_19980033_en.pdf

Measure applied from 01.03.1999.
Administrative mechanism
Administration:
Foreign, Commonwealth, & Development Office
Responsible entities
Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office
HS version
HS 2022
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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) GATT Protection of human, animal or plant life or health

XXI:(b)(ii) - (ii) relating to the traffic in arms, ammunition and implements of war and to such traffic in other goods and materials as is carried on directly or indirectly for the purpose of supplyi

GATT 1994 (GATT 1947 provisions)

Reported as: Article XXI (b)(ii) GATT National Security Exceptions
Non-WTO commitments

Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction (1997 Convention)

Reported as: Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction
Affected partners
Non-affected partners

Measures

Reported restrictions
P P-X
Symbol
P
P-X

Tariff lines
930690
ex 930690
Land mines which are designed to be detonated by the presence, proximity or contact of an individual...