IMPLEMENTATION LEVEL

National

AFFECTED FLOW

Inflow

ANNOUNCED AS TEMPORARY

No

NON-TRADE-RELATED RATIONALE

No

ELIGIBLE FIRMS

all

JUMBO

No

TARIFF PEAK

No
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Inception date: 01 Apr 2010 | Removal date: open ended

Import ban

On 1 April 2010, the Ugandan government imposed an import ban for used electronic equipment. The measure was proposed in the budget speech for 2009 by Finance and Economic Planning minister Syda Bbumba.
 
The ban of all used computers, freezers and refridgerators was planned to be effective from 1 June 2009. Due to protesting retailers, the ban was postponed twice to 1 October 2009 and finally to 1 April 2010.
 

 

AFFECTED COUNTRIES

MAP
TABLE
EXPORT

AFFECTED SECTORS AND PRODUCTS

439 Other general-purpose machinery & parts
8418 Refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerating or freezing equipment, electric or other; heat pumps other than air conditioning machines of heading 84.15.
841850 Other furniture (chests, cabinets, display counters, showcases and the like) for storage and display, incorporating refrigerating or freezing equipment
452 Computing machinery & parts
8471 Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included.
847130 Portable automatic data processing machines, weighing not more than 10 kg, consisting of at least a central processing unit, a keyboard and a display
847141 Comprising in the same housing at least a central processing unit and an input and output unit, whether or not combined
847149 Other, presented in the form of systems
847160 Input or output units, whether or not containing storage units in the same housing
847190 Other

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