Cargo Restrictions
Exports:
- Waste and scrap of ferrous cast iron
- Timber from any wood grown in the Partner States
- Fresh unprocessed fish (Nile Perch and Tilapia)
- Wood charcoal
- Used automobile batteries, lead scrap, crude and refined lead and all forms of scrap metals
Imports:
- Used tyres for light commercial vehicles and passenger cars
- Plastic articles of less than 30 microns for conveyance or packing of goods
- Worn underwear garments of all types
- Unwrought precious metals and precious stones
- Arms and ammunition specified under Chapter 93 of the Customs Nomenclature
- Ossein and bones treated with acid
- Other bones and horn-cores, unworked, defatted, simply prepared (but not cut to shape), de-gelatinized, powder, and waste of these products
- Ivory, elephant unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape
- Teeth, hippopotamus, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape
- Horn, rhinoceros, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape
- Other ivory unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape
- Ivory powder and waste
- Tortoise shell, whalebone and whalebone hair, horns, antlers, hooves, nails, claws, and beaks, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape, powder, and waste of these products
- Coral and similar materials, unworked or simply prepared but not otherwise worked
- Shells of mollusks, crustaceans, or echinoderms, and cattle-bone unworked or simply prepared
- Bone, tortoise shell, horn, antlers, coral, mother-of-pearl, and other animal carving material, and articles of these materials (including articles obtained by moulding)
- Ozone-depleting substances under the Montreal Protocol (1987) and the Vienna Convention (1985)
- Genetically modified products
- Non-indigenous species of fish or egg of progeny
- Endangered species of world flora and fauna and their products in accordance with regulations
- Commercial casings (second-hand tyres)
- All psychotropic drugs under international control
- Historical artifacts
- Parts of guns and ammunition, of base metal (Section XV of the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System), or similar goods of plastics
- Armoured fighting vehicles
- Telescope sights or other optical devices suitable for use with arms, unless mounted on a firearm or presented with the firearm on which they are designed to be mounted
Weight Regulations
Axle loads and vehicle dimensions are regulated under UNRA Vehicle Dimension Regulations, 2017.
Maximum load for:
- 2 axles (8 tyres): 18 tons
- 3 axles: Typically used for heavy-duty transport
- 4 axles: Used for carrying heavier loads than vehicles with fewer axles
- 5 axles: 42 tons, with a payload of 25-27 tons
- 6 axles: 48 tons, with a payload of 30-32 metric tons
- 7 or more axles: 56 tons
Regulations comply with the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite maximum allowed standard although axle loads, and dimensions are not still fully harmonized within EAC area.
