Import and Export (Control) Regulations, Statutory Instrument no. 55 of 2008

1. Citation and commencement

2. Interpretation

3. Application

4. Licence

5. Prohibition

6. Exemptions

7. Offences

8. Offences by company

9. Revocation Schedules 527 SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS 2008 NO. 55 Gazetted 11th November, 2008 IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by section 3 of the Supplies (Control) Act, Cap. 119, the Governor-General makes the following regulations: IMPORT AND EXPORT (CONTROL) REGULATIONS 2008

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Import and Export Citation and (Control) Regulations 2008. commencement (2)These Regulations come into force on the 1st day of January 2009.

2. (1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires: Interpretation “Community” means the Caribbean Community including the CARICOM Single Market and Economy established by the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas Establishing the Caribbean Community signed at Nassau, The Bahamas on 5 July 2001; “Company” includes a firm, an association or other corporate Body; “Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States” means the Organisation Established by the Treaty Establishing the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States signed at Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis on 18 June 1981. (2) The words, letters, figures and symbols used to name, describe and identify goods in Schedule 1,2 and 3 shall have the same meaning as in the First Schedule to the Customs Duties Act except that Cap.303 where “EX” precedes as tariff number, then only the goods actually named beside that tariff number are referred to and not the general class of goods otherwise identified by that tariff number. 528 Application 3. These Regulations shall not apply to the goods listed as “removal goods” or “travel goods” in the Second Schedule of the Customs Duties Act. Licence 4. (1) A licence is required: Schedule 1 (a) to import goods listed in Schedule 1 if the goods originate from any country outside the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States and Belize; Schedule 2 (b) to import goods listed in Schedule 2 if the goods originate from any country outside the Community; or Schedule 3 (c) to export goods listed in Schedule 3. (2) A licence may be obtained: (a) from the Ministry responsible for trade in respect of goods referred to in subregulation (1) (a) and (b); (b) from the Comptroller of Supplies in respect of goods referred to in subregulation (1) (c). (3) A licence fee of five dollars by way of stamp affixed to the Application for a licence shall be paid to the Ministry responsible for trade in respect of the issue of every licence to import goods referred to in subregulation (1) (a) and (b). Prohibiton 5. No person may import: (a) fireworks except where permission is granted by the Minister responsible for trade. (b) jet skis; (c) military style camouflage material or uniform except where imported for use by police or military personnel; and (d) toy guns. Exemptions 6. Notwithstanding anything contained in these Regulations, the Minister responsible for trade may permit the importation of any goods For use as ship supplies or stores. 529

7. A person who imports or exports goods in contravention of these Offences Regulation commits and offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of three thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term of three months or both such fine and imprisonment and any goods the subject matter of the offence shall be forfeited.

8. Where an offence under these Regulation has been committed Offences by by a company, any person, who at the time of the commission of the company offence was a director, partner or officer to the company, or any member concerned in the management of the company, as well as such company, is liable to prosecution as if he had personally committed the offence, unless he can prove that the offence was committed without his knowledge or consent.

9. The Import and Export (Control) Regulations 1992 are revoked. Revocation (10 of 1992) 530

SCHEDULE 1 Regulations 2,4 (1) (a) Item No. Product Description 910.99.30 Curry powder 1101.00 Wheat flour 1517.10.00 Margarine 1517.90.10 Shortening 19.02 Pasta products, whether or not cooked or stuffed or otherwise prepared. 2202.10.10 Aerated beverages 2202.90.20 Malta 2203.00.10 Beer 2203.00.20 Stout 2804.40.00 Oxygen 2811.21.00 Carbon dioxide 2901.29.20 Acetylene 3406.00 Candles 4818.10.00 Toilet paper Ex4819.30.00- Ex4819.40.00 Paper bags Ex8419.19.00 Solar water heaters 9401.61.00 Chairs and other seats of wood and upholstered fabric Ex94.03 Other furniture of wood and upholstered fabric 531

SCHEDULE 2 Regulations 2 (2), 4 (1) (b) Item No. Product Description 01.05 Live poultry, that is to say fowls of the species gallus domesticus, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls. 02.01- 02.04 Meat of bovine animals, sheep, goat and swine fresh, Chilled or frozen. 02.06 Edible offals of bovine animals, sheep, goat and swine fresh, chilled or frozen. 02.07 Meat and edible offals (except liver) that is to say Fowls, ducks, geese, turkey and guinea fowls fresh, chilled or frozen. 02.08 Other meat and edible offals, fresh chilled or frozen. 03.03 Fish Frozen Ex03.05 Salmon, trout and other fish except codfish, mackerel, herring, hake, saithe, haddock and Pollock dried, salted or in brine. 04.01 Milk and cream not concentrated nor containing Added sugar or other sweetening matter. 0409.00.00 Natural honey. Ex06.04 Part of trees and other plants suitable for use as Christmas trees. 07.02.00.00 Tomatoes 0703.10.10 Onions 0704.90.10 Cabbage 0706.10.10 Carrots 0709.60.10 Sweet pepper 0709.90.20 Ochroes (Okra) 0709.90.30 Pumpkin 532 0709.90.90 Other vegetables. 07.12 Dried vegetables, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in Powder, but not further prepared. 08.01 Coconut, brazil nuts and cashew nuts, fresh or dried whether or not shelled or peeled. 08.03 Bananas, including plantains fresh or dried. Ex08.04 Pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes and mangosteens, fresh or dried. 09.04 Peppers, dried, crushed or ground. Ex09.06 Cinnamon. 0907.00.00 Cloves. 10.06 Rice. 11.08 Starches Ex12.02 Groundnuts, shelled or unshelled 15.07- 15.15 Fixed vegetable oils – edible. 16.01.00 Sausages and similar products of meat, meat offals or blood; food preparation bases on these products. 17.01 Beet and cane sugar and chemically pure sucrose in solid form. Ex19.04 Cheezees and corn curls. 19.05 Bread, pastry cakes, biscuits, ice cream cones, and Other bakers wares, whether or not containing cocoa in any proportion. 20.07 Jams, fruit jellies, marmalade, fruit or nut puree and fruit or nut pastes, obtained by cooking whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter 20.09 Fruit juices (including grape must) and vegetable juices, unfermented and not containing added sugar and other sweetening matter. 2105.00.10 Ice Cream. 22.02 Water including mineral waters and aerated waters containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured and other non-alcoholic beverages not including fruit or vegetable juice or heading No: 2009 533 2208.40.90 Over proof rum. 32.08- 32.10 Paint and varnishes. 3305.10.00 Shampoos. Ex3305.90.00 Hair conditioners. 3307.20.00 Deodorant. 3401.19.10 Household soaps (cakes, tablets or bars). 3401.11.20 Toilet soaps (cakes, tablets or bars). 3401.11.10 Medicated soaps. Ex CH:39 Plastic tubing for the banana industry. Ex39.17.23.00 Poly vinyl chloride (PVC) pipes. Ex39.20 & Ex39.21 Poly foam. Ex39.23.20.00 Plastic bags. Ex40.12 Rethreaded and remolded tyres. 4418.20.00 Wooden doors including paneled doors. Ex46.01 Grass mats. Ex4819.10.00 Corrugated cartons. 48.20.20.00 Exercise books. Ex57.02 Carpets, carpeting, rugs and mats or vegetable plaiting materials. Ex61.09 T-shirts. Ex63.02 Bed linens. Ex94.04 Mattresses and mattress supports. 534

SCHEDULE 3 Regulations 2 (2), 3 (1) (c) Item No. Product Description Ex0306.22.00 Lobster (live). 0306.12.00 Lobster (frozen). Ex0306.22.00 Lobster fresh or chilled. Ex0306.29.00 Conch fresh or chilled. Ex1605.30.00 Lobster prepared or preserved. Dated the 11th day of November 2008. BERNARD MORGAN Secretary of the Cabinet (Ag.) Printed by the Government Printer at the Government Printing Office, Campden Park, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. 2008 [Price $4.80]