Nepal #9027 (v.1)

Base data

Notified in
Version validity
30/09/2022 - present
Current active version v.1
Reporting member
Nepal
In force from
End date
In force
General description
Export prohibition of raw leather and wool and hair of wild animals
National legal basis
Sub-section (1) of Section 3 of the Export Import (Control) Act, 2013 (1957)
Administrative mechanism
Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development

In respect of the export of wet blue leather, it is required to have minimum thirty percent of crust or fully refined leather or leather goods of the export quantity of leather within the same fiscal year. For this purpose, other layer prepared on the basis of width of first layer may be considered as one layer in course of export.
Responsible entities
Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development
HS version
HS 2017
Referenced WTO document symbol

Meta data

WTO justifications

Article XVIII - Article XVIII* -Governmental Assistance to Economic Development

GATT 1994 (GATT 1947 provisions)

Reported as: GATT Article XVIII

XX:(i) - (i) involving restrictions on exports of domestic materials necessary to ensure essential quantities of such materials to a domestic processing industry during periods when the domestic price

GATT 1994 (GATT 1947 provisions)

Reported as: GATT Article XX(i)
Non-WTO commitments
Affected partners
Non-affected partners

Measures

Reported restrictions
P-X
Symbol
P-X

Tariff lines

4101
4101
Raw leather (including dry salted)
4102
4102
Raw leather (including dry salted)
4103
4103
Raw leather (including dry salted)
5101
5101
Raw wool and hair of wild animals.
5102
5102
Raw wool and hair of wild animals.