Provisional Translation
| OTO No. | 240 | Classification | MHW-139 |
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| Date of Acceptance | May 22, 1986 | Ministry/Agency Receiving Complaint | Economic Planning Agency |
| Responsible Ministries | Ministry of Health and Welfare | Related Laws | Food Sanitation Law |
| Complainant | Domestic firm | Exporting Countries | |
| Subject | Concerning the import of processed foods, exemption from the obligation to describe the raw material, and the manufacturing or processing method in the import notification. | ||
| Details of Measures | To speed up the import procedures for foods, etc., a prior notification system has been introduced since January 1, 1986 to make advance examination of imported cargoes by documents before their arrival. Reply was made that for importing processed foods, the importer is required to write the name of raw materials and the manufacturing or processing method in the import notification, and this is necessary to speed up the entire flow of import procedures, and that the contents to be written by him are not beyond the scope required so far to the commodity explanatory statement and therefore they will not be any burden on him. |
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| Classification of Processing | D | Directions | II-a |
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