IMPLEMENTATION LEVEL

National

AFFECTED FLOW

Outflow

ANNOUNCED AS TEMPORARY

No

NON-TRADE-RELATED RATIONALE

No

ELIGIBLE FIRMS

all

JUMBO

No

TARIFF PEAK

No
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Inception date: 02 Apr 2010 | Removal date: open ended
Still in force

Export ban

The United Republic of Tanzania has banned the export of raw tanzanite gemstone to encourage the development of the local processing industry.
 
The ban was announced by the Minister of Energy and Minerals and is effective from 2 April 2010. Dealers who violate the ban will have their consignment confiscated and licences nullified. Tanzania is the world's only source of tanzanite.
 
 
 

AFFECTED COUNTRIES

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AFFECTED SECTORS AND PRODUCTS

163 Precious & semi-precious stones; natural abrasives; other minerals
7102 Diamonds, whether or not worked, but not mounted or set.
710231 Unworked or simply sawn, cleaved or bruted
7103 Precious stones (other than diamonds) and semiprecious stones, whether or not worked or graded but not strung, mounted or set; ungraded precious stones (other than diamonds) and semi precious stones, temporarily strung for convenience of transport.
710310 Unworked or simply sawn or roughly shaped
382 Jewellery & related articles
7103 Precious stones (other than diamonds) and semiprecious stones, whether or not worked or graded but not strung, mounted or set; ungraded precious stones (other than diamonds) and semi precious stones, temporarily strung for convenience of transport.
710391 Rubies, sapphires and emeralds
710399 Other

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