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Committee on Import Licensing - Agreement on Import Licensing Procedures - Notification under article 5.1 to 5.4 of the Agreement - United Kingdom

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2025/01/30
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G/LIC/N/2/GBR/16

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agreement on import licensing procedures

Notification under Article 5.1 to 5.4 of the Agreement[1]

United Kingdom

The following communication, dated 29 January 2025, is being circulated at the request of the delegation of United Kingdom.

Category

Notification details

Notifying Member

United Kingdom

Title of new legislation/procedure

The extension of the Ivory Act 2018 to other species. The Ivory Act 2018 (meaning of "Ivory" and miscellaneous amendments) Regulations 2025

Date of Publication

7 January 2025

Date of entry into force

28 January 2025

Website link/Official publication of the new regulation/procedure

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/9/contents/made

Have you attached a copy of the regulation (PDF) to the Secretariat

[] Yes. (Please attach a copy of the regulation to the notification.)

[X] No.

Type of notification

[] (a) New licensing regulation/procedure[2]; (please answer question 8 to 14)

[X] (b) Changes to a regulation/procedure which has been previously notified in document: G/LIC/N/2/GBR/15 (please answer question 15 and 16)

List of products subject to licensing

Nature of licensing

Automatic: []

Non-Automatic: []

Administrative purpose/measure being implemented

(a)

Protect public morals;

(b)

Protect human, animal or plant life and health; protect environment;

(c)

Collect trade statistics or market surveillance;

(d)

Protection of patents, trademarks and copyrights, and the prevention of deceptive practices;

(e)

Pursue obligations under the UN Charter and other international treaties (i.e. CITES, Basel Convention, Rotterdam Convention, UNSC Resolutions etc.)

(f)

Quota (including TRQ) administration;

(g)

Regulate imports of arms, ammunition or fissionable materials and safeguard national security;

(h)

Other: ______________ (please specify)

Administrative body(ies) for submission of applications

Contact point for information on eligibility

Expected duration of licensing procedure

A summary of the notification in one of the WTO official languages

In the case of 7(b), please indicate the type of new change(s)

(a)		Termination
(b)		Suspension
(c)		Modification of specific details in existing procedures:
	Product coverage;
	Administrative purpose;
	Automatic or Non-automatic;
	Duration of licensing;
	Change the nature of quantity/value restriction;
	Eligibility of applicants;
	Contact information on eligibility;
	Administrative body(ies) for submission of application;
	Documentation requirements (including application form);
	Period for Application;
	Administrative body(ies) to issue licence;
	Processing time for issuing licence;
	Licence fee/administrative charge;
	Deposit/advance payment and relevant conditions;
	Appeal regulations/procedures;
	Validity of licence;
	Other conditions of licence (extension, transferability, penalty of non-use etc.);
	Foreign exchange requirements;
	Other:

Please elaborate the changes in detail (in one of the WTO official languages)

The legislation extends the prohibition on dealing ivory under the Ivory Act 2018 to four other species: common hippopotamus, killer whale, narwhal and sperm whale.

Expected duration of licensing procedure

The extension of the licensing procedure will commence from 28/01/2025 and continue for as long as the regime as set out in the Ivory Act 2018 is in force.

Registering an item under a standard exemption is instantaneous as it is done as a self-declaration using the digital ivory service.

Applying for an exemption certificate to import a pre-1918 outstandingly high artistic, cultural or historical value item can take up to 3 months.

Summary

The Ivory Act 2018 (the Act) prohibits the import of items made of or containing ivory, regardless of their age, unless they fall within one of the narrow and carefully defined exemptions.

The legislation extends this prohibition to four other species: common hippopotamus, killer whale, narwhal and sperm whale.

Those wishing to rely on an exemption to import ivory must first register the item under Section 10 of the Act or apply for an exemption certificate under Section 2.

Guidance on registering an item can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/dealing-in-items-containing-ivory-or-made-of-ivory

Guidance on applying for an exemption certificate can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ivory-apply-for-an-exemption-certificate-to-deal-in-pre-1918-outstandingly-high-artistic-cultural-or-historical-value-items

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Annex

Description	UK Comm Code	Subheading	CITES[3]
Ivory; ivory powder and waste	0507100000		C400
Heading: Wood marquetry and inlaid wood; caskets and cases for jewellery or cutlery, and similar articles, of wood; statuettes and other ornaments, of wood; wooden articles of furniture not falling in Chapter 94	4420
Statuettes and other ornaments Of tropical wood		442011	C400
Other		442019	C400
Wood marquetry and inlaid wood		4420901000	C400
Wood in the form of logs or squared logs with simple process in the surface, carved or finely threaded or painted, does not have significant added-value and no significant change in shape		4420909191	C400
Other		4420909199	C400
Wood in the form of logs or squared logs with simple process in the surface, carved or finely threaded or painted, does not have significant added-value and no significant change in shape		4420909910	C400
Other		4420909990	C400
Heading: Articles of jewellery and parts thereof, of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal	7113
Of silver, whether or not plated or clad with other precious metal		7113110000	C400
Of other precious metal, whether or not plated or clad with precious metal		7113190000	C400
Of base metal clad with precious metal		7113200000	C400
Heading: Articles of goldsmiths' or silversmiths' wares and parts thereof, of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal	7114
Of silver, whether or not plated or clad with other precious metal		7114110000	C400
Of other precious metal, whether or not plated or clad with precious metal		7114190000	C400
Of base metal clad with precious metal		7114200000	C400
Other articles of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal	7115
Heading: Articles of natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed)	7116
Of natural or cultured pearls		7116100000	C400
Heading: Knives with cutting blades, serrated or not (including pruning knives), other than knives of heading 8208, and blades therefor	8211
Sets of assorted articles		8211100000	C400
Table knives having fixed blades		8211910000	C400
Other knives having fixed blades		8211920000	C400
Heading: Spoons, forks, ladles, skimmers, cake-servers, fish-knives, butter-knives, sugar tongs and similar kitchen or tableware	8215
Subheading: Sets of assorted articles containing at least one article plated with precious metal:		821510
Containing only articles plated with precious metal		8215102000	C400
Of stainless steel		8215103000	C400
Subheading: Other sets of assorted articles:		821520
Of stainless steel		8215201000	C400
Other		8215209000	C400
Heading: Pianos, including automatic pianos; harpsichords and other keyboard stringed instruments	9201
Subheading: Upright pianos:		920110
New		9201101000	C400
Used		9201109000	C400
Grand pianos		9201200000	C400
Other		9201900000	C400
Heading: Other string musical instruments (for example, guitars, violins, harps)	9202
Subheading: Played with a bow:		920210
Violins		9202101000	C400
Other		9202109000	C400
Subheading: Other:		920290
Guitars		9202903000	C400
Other		9202908000	C400
Heading: Wind musical instruments (for example, keyboard pipe organs, accordions, clarinets, trumpets, bagpipes), other than fairground organs and mechanical street organs	9205
Brass-wind instruments		9205100000
Subheading: Other:		920590
Accordions and similar instruments		9205901000	C400
Mouth organs		9205903000
Keyboard pipe organs; harmoniums and similar keyboard instruments with free metal reeds		9205905000	C400
Other		9205909000	C400
Percussion musical instruments (for example, drums, xylophones, cymbals, castanets, maracas)	9206		C400
Heading: Parts (for example, mechanisms for musical boxes) and accessories (for example, cards, discs and rolls for mechanical instruments) of musical instruments; metronomes, tuning forks and pitch pipes of all kinds	9209
Musical instrument strings		9209300000
Parts and accessories for pianos		9209910000
Parts and accessories for the musical instruments of heading 9202		9209920000	C400
Parts and accessories for the musical instruments of heading 9207		9209940000	C400
Subheading: Other:		920999	C400
Parts and accessories for the musical instruments of heading 9205		9209992000	C400
Other		9209997000	C400
Heading: Other furniture and parts thereof	9403
Subheading: Wooden furniture of a kind used in the kitchen:		940340
Subheading: Fitted kitchen units:		94034010
Handmade		9403401010	C400
Other		9403401090	C400
Subheading: Other:		94034090
Handmade		9403409010	C400
Other		9403409090	C400
Wooden furniture of a kind used in the bedroom		9403500000	C400
Subheading: Other wooden furniture:		940360
Wooden furniture of a kind used in the dining room and the living room		9403601000	C400
Wooden furniture of a kind used in shops		9403603000	C400
Other wooden furniture		9403609000	C400
Video game consoles and machines, table or parlour games, including pintables, billiards, special tables for casino games and automatic bowling equipment, amusement machines operated by coins, banknotes, bank cards, tokens or by any other means of payment	9504
Articles and accessories for billiards of all kinds		9504200000	C400
Other		9504908000	C400
Heading: Worked ivory, bone, tortoiseshell, horn, antlers, coral, mother-of-pearl and other animal carving material, and articles of these materials (including articles obtained by moulding)	9601
Subheading: Worked ivory and articles of ivory:		960110
Handmade		9601100010	C400
Other		9601100090	C400
Heading: Paintings, drawings and pastels, executed entirely by hand, other than drawings of heading 4906 and other than hand-painted or hand-decorated manufactured articles; collages, mosaics and similar decorative plaques	9701
Subheading: Of an age exceeding 100 years:		970121
Paintings, drawings and pastels		9701210000
Mosaics		9701220000
Other		9701290000
Heading: Original sculpture and statuary, in any material	9703
Of an age exceeding 100 years		9703100000	C400
Other		9703900000	C400
Heading: Antiques of an age exceeding 100 years	9706
Of an age exceeding 250 years		9706100000	C400
Other		9706900000	C400

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[1]It is understood that the notifying Member has also completed its notification obligations under Article 1.4(a) and Article 8.2(b) regarding the relevant law/regulation/procedure notified for by filling this form in a full and complete manner.

[2] "New licensing regulation/procedure" is understood to refer to any newly introduced law, regulation or procedure, and those which are in force but being notified for the first time to the Committee.

[3] The "CITES" column in the table refers to the commodity codes in scope of the Ivory Act. In practice, this means that, when a trader chooses a code that is in scope of the Act, they will see a footnote advising them that ivory items can only be traded if they have a reg number/exemption cert., and they will also be informed that the item is controlled under the CITES code C400 which applies to that commodity code too (and that they have to present a CITES permit).

Committee on Import Licensing - Agreement on Import Licensing Procedures - Notification under article 5.1 to 5.4 of the Agreement - United Kingdom

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