Restricted items

The provisions setting out restricted item for import/export are set out in the 2nd and 3rd Schedule of the East African Community Customs Management Act. They include but are not limited to:-• Postal franking machines except and in accordance with the terms of a written permit granted by a competent authority of the partner state.
• Traps capable of killing or capturing any game animal except and in accordance with the terms of a written permit granted by the Partner state.
• 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) degelatinized, power and waste of these products, Ivory, elephant unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape, teeth, hippopotamus, unworked o simply prepared but not cut to shape, ivory powder and waste, Tortoise shell, whalebone and whalebone hair, horns, antlers, hoover, nail, claws and beaks, unworked or simply prepared but not otherwise worked shells or molasses, crustaceans or echinoderms and cattle-bone.
• An unmanned aerial vehicle for example, drones.
• All goods the importation of which is for the time being regulated under this Act or by any written law for the time being in force in the Partner State.