I. Plants, Animals and Agricultural, Livestock and Marine Products
1.Products Requiring Import Approval and Certification


Q1-1

What kind of agricultural, livestock and marine products fall under an import quota system?

 
Answer

An import quota system is designed for the purpose of performing international treaties or ensuring the safety of people. Agricultural, livestock and marine products subject to the system limit to items such as shore fish and these processed products, edible seaweeds and cannabis.

(Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Law)
 

Import quota applies to the non-liberalized items, plants and animals or substances regulated by the international treaties.


1.Non-liberalized items (amended and enforced from October 14, 2005)
[Tariff schedule number,HS 4 digits base:66 items]

Tariff
Schedule
No. (HS)		 Item Description
*03.01 Live shore-fish (Note)
*03.02 Fresh or stored shore-fish and Tara roes
*03.03 Frozen shore-fish and tara roe
*03.04 Shore-fish (Fillets, etc.)
*03.05 Salted shore-fish and tara roe, dried small sardines
*03.07 Scallops, adductors of shellfish and squid (excluding mongo-ika)
*12.11 Coca leaves, cannabis and poppy plants
*12.12 Edible seaweeds
*13.01 Cannabis resins
13.02 Opium, extracts of cannabis, etc.
*21.06 Food preparation of seaweeds
*25.24 Amosite and crocidolite
26.12 Uranium or thorium ores (including concentrates)
*28.44 Natural uranium and its compounds, etc.
*29.03 Chlordan, Aldrin, DDT, etc.
*29.04 4-Nitrodiphenyl and its salts
*29.06 Trichloro compounds, etc.
*29.07 Tritertiary butylphenol
*29.09 Bis (chloromethyl) ether
*29.10 Dieldrin, Endrin
29.14 Phenylacetone
*29.18 Lactic hydroxin and its salts
*29.21 (b)-naphthylamine and its salts
*29.22 Acetylmethadone
*29.24 Diampromide and its salts
*29.26 Methadone intermediate and its salts
*29.30 4-MTA and its salts
*29.31 Bis (tributyltim) = Oxido
*29.32 N-Ethyl MDA, etc.
*29.33 Anileridine, etc.
*29.34 Ethylmethylthiambuten, etc.
*29.39 Nalorphine, etc.
*30.02 Antisera and vaccines
*30.03 Preparations like narcotics
*30.04 Preparations like narcotics
*34.04 Polychlorobiphenyl, etc.
*35.06 Rubber adhesives containing benzene
Tariff
Schedule
No. (HS)		 Item Description
36.01 Gun powder
36.02 Prepared explosives and other than gun powder
*36.03 Safety fuses and detonating fuses, percussion or detonating caps, etc.
*36.05 Yellow phosphorus matches
*38.22 Preparations containing 4-nitrodiphenyl
*39.24 Preparations containing 4-nitrodiphenyl, etc.
*40.05 Rubber adhesives containing benzene
*40.16 Rubber adhesives containing benzene
*68.11 Preparations containing amosite and crocidolite, etc.
*68.12 Preparations containing amosite and crocidolite, etc.
*68.13 Preparations containing amosite and crocidolite, etc.
*81.09 Tubes of zirconium
84.01 Nuclear reactors and their parts
*84.11 Engines and motors for military aircraft
84.12 Engines and motors for military aircraft
87.10 Tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles and parts
*88.02 Military aircraft
*89.06 Warships
90.30 Instruments and apparatus for measuring radiation and parts thereof
93.01 Military weapons
93.02 Revolvers and pistols
93.03 Other firearms
93.04 Other weapons
*93.05 Parts and accessories of weapons
93.06 Bombs, grenades, torpedoes and parts thereof
93.07 Swords, cutlasses, bayonets and parts thereof

(Note) Shore fish:herring, cod, yellowtail, mackerel, sardines, horse mackerel and saury.
* Symbol: Some of the items meeting tariff schedule numbers are non-liberalized items
2.Plants and animals prescribed by the Convention on International trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES; the Washington Convention) and their derivatives, substances and products regulated by the Montreal Protocol, substances including the Designated Substances and Class 1 Listed Substances provided in laws such as the Law for the Control of Export, Import and Others of Specified Hazardous Wastes and Other Wastes, and of chemical weapons and regulation of designated substances.