The Ministry of Commerce has exempted 14 groups of goods from the requirement to obtain an import license prior to their arrival in Myanmar, as announced in Export/Import Newsletter 16/2023 on 21 December.
Goods imported without an import license will be stored in a customs warehouse until a license is obtained.
The regulation applies to the following groups of goods:
- Medicines and medical devices
- Agricultural inputs (seeds, fertilisers, pesticides)
- Veterinary medicines
- Motor oil, lubricants, and other industrial oils
- Packaging materials
- Various electric vehicles
- Items in para. 1(l) of Notification no. 31/2023 of the Ministry of Planning and Finance (accessories and spare parts of battery electric vehicles)
- Raw materials for animal husbandry
- Raw materials for medicine and herbal medicine
- Industrial raw materials (including plastic pellets, plastic raw materials)
- Industrial raw chemicals
- Food raw materials (food raw materials imported from abroad if there is not enough domestically produced raw materials for food production)
- Raw materials that are part of a CMP system; raw materials needed for the production of packaging materials
- Devices needed for domestic industrial production
