Prohibited and Restricted Exports
- According to Section 70 of EACCMA, 2004, goods specified in Part A of the Third Schedule are prohibited goods and the exportation of the goods is prohibited and goods specified in Part B of the Third Schedule are restricted goods and the exportation of the goods, save in accordance with any conditions regulating their exportation, is prohibited.
Third Schedule of EACCMA, 2004
PART A—PROHIBITED GOODS
- All goods the exportation of which is prohibited under this Act or by any written law for the time being in force in the Partner States.
- Used or scrap cables and conductors of aluminium, steel and copper
Prohibited and Restricted Exports
PART B—RESTRICTED GOODS
- 1. (a) All goods the exportation of which is regulated under this Act or of any law for the time being in force in the Partner States;
(b) Waste and scrap of ferrous cast iron;
(c) Timber from any wood grown in the Partner States;
(d) Fresh unprocessed fish (Nile Perch and Tilapia);
(e) Wood charcoal.
(f) Used automobile batteries, lead scrap, crude and refined lead and all forms of scrap metals.
- 2. The following goods shall not be exported in vessels of less than two hundred and fifty tons register:
(a) Warehoused goods;
(b) Goods under duty drawback;
(c) Transshipped goods.
- Partner States highly rely on National Laws to prohibit and restrict export goods not covered in the Third Schedule.
- The main reasons for the restriction of goods under paragraph 1 of part B of the Third Schedule are:
- Economic reasons
- Environmental reasons
- Paragraph 2 of part B of the Third Schedule also specifies the kind of goods which should not be exported in vessels that are less than two hundred and fifty tons register.
- These goods have an inherent revenue risk since warehoused and transshipped goods are covered by bond, whereas duty drawback goods are eligible for duty refund.