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Import Regs.: Licenses/Prohibited/Restrictions


On September 1, 1999 the Government of Suriname (GOS) removed licensing requirements for most imports and exports, an important next step in trade liberalization. A limited number of banned goods (narcotics, nuclear material) and goods requiring a license or certificate remain.

The licensing system was replaced for all imported goods with a "negative list," which is divided into banned goods and goods requiring a license from the Ministry of Trade and Industry or a certificate from the Ministry of Health and Agriculture.

Tariff Heading Description Legal Basis Reason Agency to issue permit

Prohibited Goods
38.08 Pesticides contained in --- Environmental Not applicatable
FAO negative list Protection
38.08 Chemicals contained in --- Environmental Not applicable
FAO negative list Protection
28.44 Chemical and --- Environmental Not applicable
Radioactive Waste Protection
93.01 Chemical, Biological + Chemical National Security Not applicable
nuclear weapons, Weapons
including substances Convention
used to produce them.
--- Goods obtained illigally --- Public Morality Not appliicable
in their country of origin
87 Second-hand buses --- Environmental Not applicable
older than 10 years Protection
--- Second-hand --- Environmental Not applicable
passanger vehicles Protection
older than 8 years

Goods Subject to licensing Requirements
93.02 Firearms, including Firearms Law National Security Not applicable
explosives and
ammunition in the
sense of Article I of
the Law on Firearms
36.04 Fireworks --- National Security Ministry of Trade
and Industry
30 Narcotics and Narcotics Law Public Order and Ministry of Trade
12.11 psychotropic substances United Nations Health and Industry
13.02 listed in Article 3.1 of the Single Convention
28,29 Narcotics Law; on Narcotic Drugs
38 pharmaceutical products and the Prevention
53.02 for humans and sera of Drug Addiction,
UN Convention on
Psychotropic Subs.
UN Convention against
Illicit Traffic in Narcotic
Drugs and Psychoptopic subs.
30 Pharmaceutical products --- Public Health Ministry of Trade
38.08 for plants and animals and Industry
28.05 Mercury --- Environmental Ministry of Trade
Protection and and Industry
Public Health
38.05 Pesticides (except those Pesticides Law Environmental Ministry of Trade
included in the FAO Protection and and Industry
negative list) Public Health
28.44 Radioactive Materials --- Public Health Ministry of Trade
28.45 and Industry
1-5 Endangered wild Hunting Law + Protection of Ministry of Trade
96.01 animal species listed Convention on Animal Life and Industry
in Appendix I of CITIES International Trade
and their products, in Endangered
including eggs. Species of Wild
Fauna and Flora
2-5 Eggs, skins and hides Hunting Law Protection of Ministry of Trade
41-43 other products of animal life and Industry
endangered species
--- Animals, their parts --- Protection of Ministry of Trade
and products animal life and Industry
40.12 Second-hand tyres --- Environemntal Ministry of Trade
Protection and Industry
29.03 Equipment containing --- Environmental Ministry of Trade
polychlorobiphenyl and Protection and Industry
(PCB) polychloroterphenyl
(PCT)
06.02 Seeds, propagating Plant Protection Protection of Ministry of Trade
5-8 material, humus and Ordinance Human and and Industry
10,12 raw soil Plant Life
25
87 Second-hand --- Environmental Ministry of Trade
motorcycles or Protection and Industry
scooters older than 3yr

Goods subject to ceritification requirements
21.02 Micro-organisms --- Protection of Ministry of Trade
30.02 (bacteria, yeast and Public Health and Industry
mold)
23 Waste, except --- Environmental ---
chemical and Protection
radioactive waste
29.03 Products containing Montreal Protocol Environmental Ministry of Labor,
cholorofluorocarbons on Substances Protection Technological
(CFCs) that Deplete the Development and
Ozone Layer Environment
--- Plants Plant Protection Protection of Certification from
Ordinance and Human and the country of origin
International Plant Plant Life
Protection
Convention
63.05 Second-hand empty Plant Protection --- Fumigation
bags or sacks used certification from
for packing goods country of origin


Importers are eligible for a license as long as they fulfil the relevant requirements. Applications for the licences must be submitted to the Import, Export and Foreign Exchange Control Department of the Ministry of Trade and Industry, which must process the licence within 15 days. The authorities indicated that in practice, licences for which the Ministry of Trade and Industry does not need to seek the advice of another government agency are issued in one or two days. Licences are valid for three months and are not transferable.

Imports requiring a certificate from the Ministries of Health or Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries: medicines, micro-organisms, waste materials, refrigerators, air conditioners and all apparatus containing fluorocarbons and pesticides. The Government of Suriname removed a ban of imported poultry products from the U. S. on August 1, 2004.