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Examen de las políticas comerciales
Último Examen de las Políticas Comerciales (Informe de la Secretaría de la OMC) WT/TPR/S/356/Rev.1
A. Importación prohibiciones, restricciones y licencias de importación
3.33.
According to Nigeria's legislation, import prohibitions may be applied to protect domestic industries; to reduce balance-of-payments deficits; and on moral or safety grounds. Nigeria has two lists of prohibited goods: the "Import Prohibition List by Trade" and the "Absolute Import Prohibition List". Items included or removed from either list are notified through government notices and decrees. A waiver to import or re-export items on the prohibition lists may be granted by the President upon the recommendation of the Minister of Finance.
3.34.
Since Nigeria's last review in 2011, the number of products on the "Import Prohibition List by Trade" has been gradually reduced from 44 to 23. However, some product groups have been added to the list more recently: cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose; rethreaded and used pneumatic tyres; used motor vehicles; and farmed fish (Table A3.4).[59] The goods on the absolute import prohibition list have remained unchanged since 2011. This list has been primarily maintained on moral or safety grounds (Table A3.5).[60] According to the authorities, the "Import Prohibition List by Trade" is not applied to ECOWAS countries.
3.35.
In order to combat smuggling, Nigeria prohibits the imports of specified goods (rice since 2013 and vehicles since 2016) through land borders. Moreover, to encourage local production for certain products, importers of 41 categories of items have been banned from access to foreign exchange by the Central Bank of Nigeria since August 2015 (Table A3.6).
3.36.
Nigeria grants tariff reductions on specified quantities of imports of selected products (rice, sugar, cement and frozen fish). To benefit from the reductions, local producers of these goods have to meet certain criteria. The scheme operates like a tariff quota system but further information on it is not available.
3.37.
Nigeria abolished its general import licensing system in 1986. Based on its last notification to the WTO in 2012, Nigeria does not maintain any general import licensing requirements.[61] However, import permits may be required to import goods that are on the import prohibition list by trade granted by the President, on the export prohibition list for re-export, or that originate from ECOWAS. Established assemblers and manufacturers are given approval to bring in completely knocked down (CKD) components for assembly in Nigeria. An approval letter is required for import permits. Import permits are required to import bagged cement and frozen fish.
B. Exportación prohibiciones y restricciones
3.47.
According to its Export Prohibition Act of 1989, Nigeria prohibits particular goods from being exported for purposes of domestic food security, value-added considerations, preservation of cultural heritage, and protection of the environment and wildlife. The list of goods has not changed during the period under review and includes: maize, timber (rough or sawn), raw hides and skin (including wet blue and all unfinished leather), scrap metals, unprocessed rubber latex and rubber lumps, artefacts and antiquities, and wildlife animals classified as endangered species and their products.[65] Licences are required to export petroleum products.
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