Includes a list of goods that are prohibited from being exported to the country or are otherwise restricted.
Last Published: 1/9/2020

Occasionally, the government bans imports of certain food articles and pet food containing ingredients which are prohibited, or which originate from areas declared by the World Health Organization to be unfit.

Certain products are completely prohibited, such as:  paint with excess of lead, organochlorine-based insecticides, potassium bromate for food, used cars, asbestos or products containing asbestos, certain insecticides-herbicides.

Import quotas were eliminated in the mid-1970s and non-tariff barriers, including reference and minimum import prices, were substantially reduced in the 1990s.  Reference prices and a few remaining minimum export prices were eliminated in 1994 and 2002, respectively.

For detailed information on import barriers please refer to Uruguay’s WTO trade policy review, http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/tpr_e/tp363_e.htm.
 

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