**APPENDIX A: LISTSOF REGULATED GOODS**

 

**Goods allowed fordirect export only on cash terms with credit and consignment agreementsprohibited:**

              --Petroleum and petroleum products

              --Electrical energy

              --Non-Ferrous metals

              --Raw cotton

 

**Goods whoseexport/import is regulated by the Cabinet of Ministers**:

              --Arms, weapons, military equipment, and related products 

  --Nuclear material, equipment, technology, special non-nuclear material,radioactive sources 

              --Narcotics and chemical toxins 

              --Some types of scientific and technical information related to militaryproduction 

 

**Goods whichrequire Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations approval and registration priorto entering into foreign  tradecontract:**

              --Steppe animals, wild plants, and bones found in archeology research 

              --Raw material from wild plants and animals for producing medicine,animal venom 

              --Inventions and the results of scientific research 

              --Works of art, collectibles 

              --Chemicals for plant protection 

              --Medicine for veterinary use and related biological products 

              --All medicines and medical supplies 

              --Construction and reconstruction service 

              --Leasing of foreign transportation equipment

              --International postal and communication services

              --Legal services

 

**CommoditiesSubject to 5% Import Customs Duty:**

              Live Animals (except breeding stock)

              Grain products

              Ores

              Organic and non-organic chemical products

              Explosive materials

              Wood and wood products

               Paper and cardboardproducts and wastes

              Textiles

              Cotton and chemical fibers and fabric

              Ferrous metals

              Copper

              Nickel

              Lead

              Zinc

              Tin and articles thereof

              Nuclear reactors

              Mechanical and electric devices

              Railroad locomotives and carriages

 

**Exempt goods (0percent import customs duties)**

 

- seeds,fertilizers, forage, breeding animals, medicines, medicines for veterinary use,biologic preparations and veterinary

supplies, packagedbaby food, syringes and pharmaceutical goods;

 - goods and property for official use bydiplomatic missions and equivalent missions in Azerbaijan and for private use by

diplomatic andadministrative employees of these missions and their resident family members;

- humanitarian aidfor free distribution delivered by properly registered humanitarianorganizations and by other legal entities and by physical persons under thepermission of the state commission on international humanitarian aid;

 -technical equipment including rawmaterials and parts for their production, to be used for prophylaxis andtreatment of disability (except for automotive transport);

- goods to be transferredto state property on the basis of confiscation, lack of owner or inheritanceright; 

- property to beused as contribution of a foreign investor to the charter fund of a jointventure or for the creation of an enterprise fully owned by a foreign investor;

- goods delivered toAzerbaijan for a limited term and to be returned unchanged to the country oforigin under pre-defined conditions (VAT shall be paid at entrance andreimbursed at exit of said goods);

  - transit goods (under the control ofcustoms);

 - goods to be sold in duty-free shops;

 - property of foreign employees ofenterprises with foreign investment in Azerbaijan for private use;

- currency, cash,bills in legal turnover (not for numismatic purpose), official state documentletterheads and forms, passports and securities, delivered on the basis ofapproving document issued by the National Bank or the Ministry of 

- goods importedtemporarily for processing and re-export (VAT shall be paid at the entrance andreturned at the exit of  saidgoods);

- goods imported onthe account of the state budget

- fish and fisharticles produced in the Caspian basin within the quota for Azerbaijan anddelivered to Azerbaijan.