Provisional Translation
| OTO No. | 512 | Classification | MITI-125 |
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| Date of Acceptance | February 15, 1994 | Ministry/Agency Receiving Complaint | Economic Planning Agency |
| Responsible Ministries | Ministry of International Trade and Industry | Related Laws | Explosives Control Law Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Law |
| Complainant | Domestic firm | Exporting Countries | USA |
| Subject | Import, sale and consumption of attachments to toy firecrackers as single items | ||
| Details of Measures | When igniters attached to toy firecrackers are imported and sold as additional expendables, they are regulated under the Explosives Control Law and the Import Trade Control Law. This is because all types of explosives require igniters for lighting, and because it would be difficult to maintain public safety if they were allowed to circulate unregulated. The complainant was informed that accordingly, it is difficult to exempt igniters alone from the Explosives Control Law, but since model rockets are expected to be widely used, and since they have become larger in size, from the perspective of ensuring public safety the National Explosives Safety Council was delegated to test and study establishing a new definition for model rockets (including igniters), technical standards for use, and quantities given/received or consumed which do not require a permit from fiscal 1994. Based on the results of study by the end of this fiscal year, measures will be taken to amend the ministerial ordinances and others to relax regulations on quantities below a certain amount by the end of fiscal 1994. The complainant was further informed that as a result of amendments to the Rules for Implementing the Explosives Control Law (October 6, 1994), model rockets equipped with propellant apparatus using less than 20 g of powder and igniters containing less than 0.1 g of powder (using black gunpowder and igniting by means of electricity) have been designated as toy firecrackers, that permits will no longer be required for the sale, giving/receiving or use of the said propellant apparatus and igniters, and that as a result of an amendment made to import announcements on the same date, it is no longer necessary to obtain an import quota for the import of the igniters in question. |
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| Classification of Processing | A | Directions | III |
| Remarks | Improvement measures were taken on October 6, 1995. | ||