MALAWI

ZIMBABWE

The agreement covers the following areas:

• Custom duties
• Rules of origin
• Compliance with standards
• Sanitary and phytosanitary measures
• Non tariff barriers
  • Quantitative import restriction
• Anti dumping measures
• Subsidies and countervailing measures
• Sensitive and strategic products
• Safeguard measures
• Cooperation and customs administration
• Trade promotion and facilitation
  • Facilitation of transit trade
  • Goods in transit and for exhibition and samples
• Modes of payment
• Dispute settlement

• Elimination of tariff and non tariff barriers.
• Goods in transit and for exhibition and samples should be exempted from duty taxes levies and other charges.
• There shall be freedom to conduct trade promotion and facilitations in the respective territories, and that the trade organization shall cooperate as well as exchange information on trade promotion efforts.
• Expand and diversify trade between the two countries.
• Ensure that trade is free and uninterrupted

• To qualify for duty free treatment, goods shall be accompanied by a certificate of origin issued in accordance with Article III by a body authorised by the country of origin.
• Where a product is being exported by a person other than the original manufacturer, the Certificate of Origin in respect thereof shall be endorsed by the original manufacturer.
• Goods shall be accepted as originating in a contracting party if it meets following conditions :

1. Wholly produced or grown in the territory of the contracting party.
2. Wholly or partially produced from materials imported from outside territory of the contracting party.

• International and importing country standards should be complied.
• Sanitary and phytosanitary measures should be in accordance with WTO agreements.
• Contracting parties shall not apply any new quantitative restrictions
• Facilitation of trade should be in accordance with respective laws and regulations, freedom of transit through their respective territories.
• Payments should be through normal banking channels in accordance with existing foreign exchange laws.

The agreement specifies that the following are not covered by the present agreement :

• Necessary to protect public morals or maintain public order
• Necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health
• Necessary to secure compliance with laws and regulations which are consistent with the provision of the WTO
• Necessary to protect intellectual property rights or to prevent deceptive trade practices.
• Relating to transfer of gold, silver, precious and semi-precious stones, including precious and strategic metals
• Imposed for the protection of national treasures of artistic, historic   or archaeological value
• Necessary to prevent or relieve critical shortages of food stuffs or other products essential to the exporting contracting party.
• Relating to the conservation of exhaustible natural resources and the environment.
• Necessary to ensure compliance with existing obligations under international agreements.
• Relating to import restrictions, that do not discriminate among exporting countries, on agricultural products necessary to the enforcement of Government measures, which import restrictions operate:

1. To restrict the quantities of the like domestic products permitted to be marketed or produced.
2. To remove a temporary surplus of the like domestic products.

• Relating to import and export restrictions taken in time of war or any other emergency.
• Necessary to safeguard the balance of payments
• Strategic and sensitive products shall be exempted from obligations of this agreement.

Ministry of Industry and Trade, Gemini House, P.O. Box 30366, Capital City, Lilongwe 3, MALAWI. Tel : +265 1770244

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