Export Licensing

INTRODUCTION

A total of eighteen (18) items are subject to export licensing.  There are two types of export licences:

• Open Export Permits are valid for three (3) months to one (1) year and issued to exporters of Ores, Sugar and Petroleum Products
• General Export Permits are issued for the remaining items and valid for three (3) months only except for scrap metal that is valid for only one (1) month.

The products which require an export licence are as follows:

• Scrap Metal (Incl. Scrap Batteries)
• Scrap Gold/Silver
• Coffee and Pimento
• Live animals
• Endangered Species
• Brown sugar
• Petroleum Oils
• Ammunition (explosives and firearms)
• Eggs (N.O.P.)
• Antique furniture
• Ores – Minerals and metals including Bauxite, Alumina and Gypsum
• Paintings (antique)
• Plasma – in any form
• Wood – Lignum vitae and log wood only
• Motor Vehicles
• Jewellery (Excluding those from earth metals)
• Shells (subject to Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species administered by NEPA)