REPLIES TO QUESTIONNAIRE ON IMPORT LICENSING PROCEDURES[1]

NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE 7.3 OF THE AGREEMENT

ON IMPORT LICENSING PROCEDURES (2025)

JAPAN

The following communication, dated 26 August 2025, is being circulated at the request of the delegation of Japan.

Table of contents:

1   MARINE PRODUCTS (import quota items). 2

2   Marine Products (Import Approval Items). 5

3   Marine Products (Catch Documentation Scheme). 7

4   AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS. 8

5   MEDICINES. 11

6   PROPELLANT POWDERS. 12

7   NUCLEAR GOODS. 14

8   WEAPONS. 15

9   WILD ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 17

10   SUBSTANCES WHICH DEPLETE THE OZONE LAYER, SPECIFIED HAZARDOUS WASTES, WASTEs, CHEMICAL WEAPONS GOODS (Import Quota Items). 19

11   SUBSTANCES WHICH DEPLETE THE OZONE LAYER, SPECIFIED HAZARDOUS WASTES, WASTES, CHEMICAL WEAPONS GOODS (IMPORT APPROVAL ITEMS). 21

12   CULTURAL PROPERTY. 23

13   ETHANOL. 24

14   ROUGH DIAMONDS. 25

15   Cultural Property Illegally Removed from IRAQ.. 27

16   ALL OF THE GOODS FROM NORTH KOREA. 28

17   WEAPONS AND OTHER ITEMS FROM THE LIBYAN ARAB JamahiriyA. 29

18   CHARCOAL FROM SOMALIA. 30

19   CHEMICAL WEAPONS and OTHER ITEMS RELATED TO CHEMICAL WEAPONS PROGRAMME and Cultural Property Illegally moved FROM THE SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC. 31

20   MERCURY AND MERCURY-ADDED PRODUCTS. 32

21   CERTAIN PRODUCTS ORIGInated IN, OR COMING FROM, THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION (IMPORT PROHIBITION BASED ON IMPORT TRADE CONTROL ORDER). 33

22   CERTAIN PRODUCTS ORIGINATED IN, OR COMING FROM, THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION (Import Prohibition based on Foreign Exchange Order). 34