WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/LIC/N/3/GUY/2
28 October 2003
(03-5729)
Committee on Import Licensing Original:  English
REPLIES TO THE QUESTIONNAIRE ON IMPORT LICENSING PROCEDURES1
Notification under Article 7.3 of the Agreement on Import Licensing Procedures2
GUYANA
The following communication, dated 21 October 2003, has been received from the delegation
of Guyana.
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Outline of systems
1. Import licensing system is regulated by the Trade Act Cap. 91:01 which also establishes the
list of goods subject to import licensing. The licensing system is administered by the Ministry ofTourism, Industry and Commerce.
Purposes and coverage of licensing
2. Imports of the products listed in the attached Third Schedule of the Trade Act Cap. 91:01 are
subject to automatic/non-automatic licensing (Attachment I).
3. The system applies to goods originating in and coming from all countries except the
Caribbean Community (CARICOM).  Guyana is a member state of CARICOM.
4. Automatic licensing is maintained for statistical purposes.  Non-automatic import licensing is
maintained for the purposes pr ovided for in the Agreement.
5. The import licensing system is regulated by the Trade Act Cap. 91:01 and may be amended
only by the authority of a Ministerial Order issued for that purpose under the said Act.
Procedures
6. For the products under restriction:I. There are no quotas. Information relating to formalities of filing applications for licences,
exceptions and derogations are available upon request at the responsible Ministry (Governmentagency).
II. Not applicable.
                                                     
1 See G/LIC/3, Annex, for the Questionnaire.
2 Apart from amendments to the answers submitted to questions 12 and 14 in the previous notification
(G/LIC/N/3/GUY/1) the rest of the information remains unchanged.G/LIC/N/3/GUY/2
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III. Licences are issued to importers regardless of whether they are producers of like products.
There is no regulation or restriction regarding the utilisation or non-utilisation of licences.
IV. Not applicable.V. Applications for licences are pr ocessed within two working days.
VI. An importer should have a licence prior to the arrival of any of the product(s) covered under
the Third Schedule of the Trade Act, Cap. 91:01.
VII. Import licence applications for some products may require the prior clearance of other
agencies before the final issuance by the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce.  (See
Attachment II).
VIII. Any importer is eligible for a licence subject to the requirements.  There are no laid down
criteria based on performance or quotas.
IX. There are no bilateral quotas or export restraint arrangements.  Export permits from exporting
countries are not required.
X. Export permits from exporting countries are not required.XI. No licences are issued on condition that goods should be exported and not sold in the
domestic market.
7. Where there is no quantitative limit on importation of a product or on imports from a
particular country:
(a) Application for a licence must be submitted to the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and
Commerce prior to the importation of the goods. An importer should obtain a licence prior to the
arrival of any of the product(s) covered under the Third Schedule of the Trade Act, Cap. 91:01.
(b) Under certain circumstances, a licence can be granted immediately on request.(c) There are no limitations as to the period of the year during which application for licence
and/or importation may be made.
(d) An importer may have to consult with more than one administrative organ depending on the
products to be imported (see 6.VII above).
8. None. In the event an application is refused (not approved), this is indicated to the applicant
in writing.
Eligibility of importers to apply for licence
9. All persons, firms and institutions are eligible to apply for licences.G/LIC/N/3/GUY/2
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Documentational and other requirements for application for licence
10. A sample application form is attached (see Attachment III3).  An importer is required to
obtain the prior endorsement of his application by the relevant agency before submitting same to the
Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce (see Attachment II).
11. Upon actual importation, an importer is required to submit the approved import licence or a
certified copy thereof.
 12. There is no fee related to the processing of applications.13. There is no deposit or advance payment requirement associated with the issuance of licence.Conditions of licensing
14. Almost all licences are valid for six months from the date of issue. At the expiry of this period
the validity can be extended if the applicant so requests.  The two exceptions to this are frozen meatproducts, for which one month licences are issued that are valid for only one shipment, and for arms
and for ammunition, for which licences are valid until the end of the calendar year.
15. There is no penalty for non-utilisation of a licence or a portion of it.
16. Licences are not transferable between importers.
17. There are no conditions attached to the issuance of a licence.Other procedural requirements
18. There are no other administrative procedures, apart from import licensing required prior to
importation.
19. Foreign exchange is automatically provided by the banking authorities for goods to be
imported.
                                                     
3 Available for consultation in the Secretariat (Market Access Division).G/LIC/N/3/GUY/2
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ATTACHMENT I
The Official Gazette, Legal Supplement – B, 18 December 1993
Order No. 34 of 1993 – Made under the Trade Act (Cap.91:01)
THIRD SCHEDULE
Tariff heading No.                              Description of commodity
02.0I Meat of bovine animals, fresh or chilled
02.02 Meat of bovine animals, frozen
02.03 Meat of swine, fresh, chilled or frozen
02.04 Meat of sheep or goat, fresh, chilled or frozen
02.06 Edible offal of bovine animals, swine, sheep, goats,
horses, asses, mules or hinnies, fresh, chilled or
frozen
02.07
Meat and edible offal, of the poultry of heading No.
01.05 fresh, chilled or frozen
02.08 Other meat and edible meat offal, fresh chilled or
frozen
06.01 Bulbs, tubers, tuberous roots, corns crowns and
rhizomes, dormant, in growth or in flower; chicoryplants and roots other than roots of heading No.
12.12
06.02 Other live plants (including their roots cutting and
slips, mushroom spawn
06.03 Cut flowers and flower buds of a kind suitable for
bouquets or for ornamental purposes, fresh, dried,
dyed, bleached impregnated or otherwise prepared
06.01 Foliage, branches and other parts of plants, without
flowers or flower bud and grasses, mosses and
lichens, being goods of a kind suitable for bouquets
or for ornamental purposes, fresh ,dried, dyed,bleached, impregnated or otherwise prepared
08.01.10 Coconuts
08.03 Bananas, including plantains, fresh or dried
08.04 Dated, figs, pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes
and mangosteens, fresh or dried
08.05 Citrus fruit, fresh or dried
08.06 Grapes, fresh or dried
08.07 Melons, (including watermelons) and papaws
(papayas), fresh
08.08 Apples, pears and quinces, fresh
08.10 Other fruit, fresh
10.06 Rice
11.01 Wheat or meslin flour
17.01 Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose in
solid formG/LIC/N/3/GUY/2
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27.10 Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous
minerals, other than crude, preparations not
elsewhere specified or included, containing by
weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or of oils
obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils beingthe basic constituents of the preparations
23.01 Fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine
28.06 Hydrogen chloride (hydrochloric acid)
Chlorosulphuric acid
28.07 Sulphuric acid; oleum
28.08 Nitric acid; sulphonitric acid
28.09 Diphosphorus, pentoxide, phosphoric acid and
polyphosphoric acid
28.10 Oxides of boron; boric acid
28.11 Other inorganic acids and other inorganic oxygen
compounds of non-metals
30.01 Glands and other organs for organotherapeutic uses,
dried whether or not powdered; extracts or glands or
other organs or of their secretions for
organotherapeutic uses; hepar in and its salts; other
human or animal substances  prepared for therapeuticor prophylactic use, not elsewhere specified or
included
30.02 Human blood; animal blood prepared for therapeutic,
prophylactic or diagnostic uses; antisera and other
blood fractions, vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-
organisms (excluding yeast) and similar products
30.03 Medicaments (excluding goods of heading No.
30.02;30.05 or 30.06) consisting  of two or more
constituents which have been mixed together fortherapeutic or prophylactic uses, not put up in
measured doses  or in forms or packing for retail sale
30.04 Medicaments (excluding goods of heading No.
30.02,30.05 or 30.06) consisting of mixed or
unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic
uses, put up in measured doses or in forms or packing
for retail sale
30.05 Wadding, gauze, bandages and similar articles (for
example, dressing, adhesive plasters, poultices)impregnated or coated with pharmaceutical
substances or put up in forms or packing for retail
sale for medical, surgical, dental or veterinary
purposes
30.06 Pharmaceutical goods specified in Note 3 to this
chapter.
31.01 Animal or vegetable fertilisers, whether or not mixed
together or chemically treated; fertilisers produced by
the mixing or chemical treatment of animal orvegetable products.
31.02 Mineral or chemical fertilisers, nitrogenous
31.03 Mineral or chemical fertilisers, phosphatic
31.04 Mineral or chemical fertilisers, potassicG/LIC/N/3/GUY/2
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31.05 Mineral or chemical fertilisers containing two or
three of the fertilisers elements nitrogen,
phosphorous, and potassium; other fertilisers, goods
of this Chapter in tablets or similar forms or in
packages of a gross weight not exceeding l0kg
33.03 Perfumes and toilet waters
33.04 Beauty or make-up preparations and preparations for
the care of the skin (other than medicaments),
including sun-screen or sun-tan preparations,manicure or pedicure preparations.
33.05 Preparations for use on the hair
33.06 Preparations for oral or dental hygiene including
denture fixative pastes and powder
33.07 Pre shave, shaving or after-shave preparations,
personal deodorants, bath preparations, depilatoriesand other perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations,
not elsewhere specified or included; prepared room
deodorisers, whether or not perfumed or having
disinfectant properties
34.02 Organic surface - active agents (other than soap);
surface – active preparations, washing preparations
(including auxiliarywashing preparations) and cleaning preparations,
whether or not containing soap, other than those of
heading No. 34.01
36.02 Prepared explosives other than propellant powders
36.03 Safety fuses, detonating fuses, percussion or
detonating caps, Igniters, electric detonators
37.06 Cinematographic film, exposed and developed,
whether or not incorporating sound track or
consisting only of sound track
38.08 Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides,
anti-sprouting products and plant growth regulators,disinfectants and similar products, put up in forms of
packing for retail sale or as preparations or articles
(for example, sulphur treated bands, wicks and
candles, and fly-papers)
85.25 Transmission apparatus for radio-telephony, radio-
telegraphy, radio-broadcasting, or television, whether
or not incorporating reception apparatus or soundrecording or reproducing apparatus, television
cameras
85.26
Radar-apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus and
radio remote control apparatus
85.27 Reception apparatus for radio-telephony radio-
telegraphy or radio-broadcasting, whether or not
combined in the same housing with sound recording
or reproducing apparatus or a clock
88.02 Other aircraft (for example helicopters, aeroplanes);G/LIC/N/3/GUY/2
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space craft (including satellite) and spacecraft launch
vehicles
93.01 Military weapons, other than revolvers, pistols and
the arms of heading No. 93.07
93.02 Revolvers and pistols, other than those of heading
No. 93.03 or 93.04
93.03 Other firearms and similar devices which operate by
the firing of an explosive charge for example,
sporting shotguns and rifles, muzzle – loading
firearms , Very pistols and other devices designed to
project only signal flares , pistols and revolvers  forfiring blank  ammunition captive bolt humane killers,
line throwing guns)
93.04 Other arms (for example, spring air or gas guns and
pistols, (truncheons) excluding those of heading No.
93.07
93.05 Parts and accessories of articles of heading Nos.
93.01 to 93.04
93.06 Bombs, grenades, torpedoes, mines, missiles and
similar munitions of war and parts thereof, cartridges
and other ammunition and projectiles and parts
thereof, including shot and cartridge wads
93.07 Swords, cutlasses, bayonets, lances and similar arms
and parts thereof and scabbards and sheaths thereof’.G/LIC/N/3/GUY/2
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Official Gazette, Legal Supplement – B, 24 February 1996
Order No. 4 of 1996 made under the Trade Act (Cap. 91:01)
SCHEDULE
Tariff Heading No.                                             Description
Ex 15.01 Lard; other pig fat and poultry fat, rendered ,
whether  or not pressed or solvent – extracted
Ex 15.02 Fat of bovine animals, sheep or goat raw or
rendered, whether or not pressed or solvent
extracted.
Ex 15.03 Lard stearin, Lard oil, oleostearin, oleo-oil and
tallow oil, not emulsified or mixed or otherwise
prepared.
Ex 15.04 Fats and oils and their fractions of fish or
marine mammals whether or not refined, but
not chemically modified.
Ex 15.05 Wool grease and fatty substances derived
therefrom (including lanolin)
Ex 15.06 Other animal fats and oil and their fraction,
whether or not refined , but not chemically
modified
Ex 15.07 Soya-bean oil and its fractions, whether or not
refined, but not chemically modified.
Ex 15.08 Ground-nut oil and its fractions, whether or not
refined, nut not chemically modified
Ex 15.09 Olive oil and its fractions whether or not
refined, but not chemically modified.
Ex 15.10 Other oils and their fractions obtained solely
from olives, whether or not refined, but not
chemically modified, including blends of these
oils or fractions with oils or fractions of
heading no.15.09
Ex 15.11 Palm oil and it fractions whether or not refined
but not chemically modified.
Ex 15.12 Sunflower-seeds, safflower or cotton  seed oil
and fractions thereof but not chemicallymodified.
Ex 15.13 Coconut (copra) palm kernel or babassu oil and
fractions thereof, whether or not refined but not
chemically modified
Ex 15.14 Rape, colza or mustard oil and fractions thereof
whether or not refined, but not chemically
modified
Ex 15.15 Other fixed vegetable fats and oils (including
jojoba oil) and their fractions, whether or not
refined, but not chemically modified
Ex 15.16 Animal and vegetable fats and oils and their
fractions partly and wholly hydrogenated inter-G/LIC/N/3/GUY/2
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esterified, re- esterified or eloidinised, whether
or not refined, but not further prepared
Ex 15.17 Margarine, edible mixtures or preparations of
animal or vegetable fats or oils or of fractions
of different fats or oils or their fractions of
heading No. 15.16
Ex 15.18 Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their
fractions boiled, oxidised, dehydrated
sulphurised blown polymerised by heat invacuum or in inert gas  or otherwise chemically
modified, excluding those of heading No.
15.16; inedible mixtures or preparations of
different fats or oils of this chapter not else
where specified or included
Ex 15.19 Industrial monocarboxylic  fatty acids
Ex 15.20 Glycerol (glycerine) whether or not pure,
glycerol waters and glycerol lyes.
Ex 15.21 Vegetable waxes (other than triglycerides),
beeswax, other insect waxes and spermaceti
whether or not refined or coloured.
Ex 15.22 Degras, residues resulting from the treatment of
fatty substances or animals or vegetable waxesG/LIC/N/3/GUY/2
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ATTACHMENT II
Import Licensing System - Agencies Involved in the Approval Process
Tariff heading Nos. (products)        Responsible Agencies
02.01, 02.02, 02.03, 02.04, 02.06, 02.07, 02.08 Ministry of Health
06.01, 06.02, 06.03, 06.04, 0801.10 Ministry of Agriculture
08.03, 08.04, 08.05, 08.06, 08.07, 08.08, 08.10 Ministry of Agriculture
10.06 Guyana Rice Development Board
11.01 None
17.01 Guyana Sugar Corporation
27.10 None
23.01, 28.06, 28.07 Ministry of Health
28.08, 28.09, 28.10, 28.11 Ministry of Health &
Commissioner of Police
30.01, 30.02, 30.03, 30.04, 30.05, 30.06 Ministry of Health
31.01, 31.02, 31.03, 31.04, 31.05, 38.08 Ministry of Health & Ministry of Agriculture
33.03, 33.04, 33.05, 33.06, 33.07, 34.02 Ministry of Health
36.02, 36.03 Commissioner of Police
37.06 Ministry of Culture, Youth & Sports
85.25, 85.26, 85.27 Ministry of Works and Communications &
National Frequency Management Unit
88.02 Civil Aviation Authority
93.01 Commissioner of Police
93.02, 93.03, 93.04, 93.05, 93.06, 93.07 Ministry of Home Affairs &
Commissioner of Police
Ex 15.01, Ex 15.02, Ex 15.04, Ex 15.05, Ex15.06, Ex 15.07, Ex 15.08, Ex 15.09, Ex 15.10,
Ex 15.12, Ex 15.13, Ex 15.14, Ex 15.15, Ex
15.16, Ex 15.17, Ex 15.18, Ex 15.19, Ex 15.20,
Ex 15.22Ministry of Health
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