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WTO notification · SPS

United KingdomEmergency measure, may already applyEmergency

Declaration of special measures: importation

Official title

Declaration of special measures: importation of certain products from certain third countries and territories (England) - The Trade in Animals and Related Products Regulations 2011 (SI 2011/1197); Declaration of special measures: importation of certain products from certain third countries and territories (Scotland) - The Trade in Animals and Related Products (Scotland) Regulations 2012; Declaration of special measures: importation of certain products from certain third countries and territories

The United Kingdom notified this emergency SPS measure on 27 October 2026. Emergency measures can apply immediately.

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Products

Hay and straw and certain animal by-products of animals susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease that fall within the relevant subsections of the following HS 04 – Dairy produce: milk, milk-based products and milk-derived products; HS 05 – Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or

HS codes
  • 04 · Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
    • 04
  • 05 · Animal originated products; not elsewhere specified or included
    • 05 PRODUCTS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN, NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED OR INCLUDED
    • 0502 Pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles and hair; badger hair and other brush making hair; waste of such bristles or hair
    • 0506 Bones and horn-cores and their powder and waste, unworked, defatted, simply prepared, treated with acid or degelatinised (excl. cut to shape)
    • 0507 Ivory, tortoiseshell, whalebone and whalebone hair, horns, antlers, hooves, nails, claws and beaks, unworked or simply prepared; powder and waste of these…
    • 0511 Animal products n.e.s. dead animals of all types, unfit for human consumption
All 33 codes
  • 12 · Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit, industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
    • 12 OIL SEEDS AND OLEAGINOUS FRUITS; MISCELLANEOUS GRAINS, SEEDS AND FRUIT; INDUSTRIAL OR MEDICINAL PLANTS; STRAW AND FODDER
    • 1213 Cereal straw and husks, unprepared, whether or not chopped, ground, pressed or in the form of pellets.
    • 1214 Swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay, alfalfa, clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar forage products, whether or not in the form of pellets
  • 15 · Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
    • 15
    • 1501 Pig fat, incl. lard, and poultry fat, rendered or otherwise extracted (excl. lard stearin and lard oil)
    • 1502 Fats of bovine animals, sheep or goats (excl. oil and oleostearin)
    • 1518 Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidised, dehydrated, sulphurised, blown, polymerised by heat in vacuum or in inert…
  • 23 · Food industries, residues and wastes thereof; prepared animal fodder
    • 23 RESIDUES AND WASTE FROM THE FOOD INDUSTRIES; PREPARED ANIMAL FODDER
    • 2309 Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding
  • 30 · Pharmaceutical products
    • 30
    • 3002 Human blood; animal blood prepared for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses; antisera and other blood fractions and immunological products, whether or…
  • 31 · Fertilizers
    • 31 FERTILISERS
    • 3101 Animal or vegetable fertilisers, whether or not mixed together or chemically treated; fertilisers produced by the mixing or chemical treatment of animal or…
    • 3105 Mineral or chemical fertilisers containing two or three of the fertilising elements nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium; other fertilisers (excl. pure animal…
  • 35 · Albuminoidal substances; modified starches; glues; enzymes
    • 35
    • 3501 Casein, caseinates and other casein derivatives; casein glues (excl. those packaged as glue for retail sale and weighing net <= 1 kg)
    • 3502 Albumins, incl. concentrates of two or more whey proteins containing by weight > 80% whey proteins, calculated on the dry matter, albuminates and other…
  • 41 · Raw hides and skins (other than furskins) and leather
    • 41
    • 4101 Raw hides and skins of bovine 'incl. buffalo' or equine animals, fresh, or salted, dried, limed, pickled or otherwise preserved, whether or not dehaired or…
    • 4102 Raw skins of sheep or lambs, fresh, or salted, dried, limed, pickled or otherwise preserved, whether or not dehaired or split (excl. those with wool on…
    • 4103 Other raw hides and skins, fresh, or salted, dried, limed, pickled or otherwise preserved, whether or not dehaired or split (excl. those of bovine animals…
  • 51 · Wool, fine or coarse animal hair; horsehair yarn and woven fabric
    • 51
    • 5101 Wool, neither carded nor combed
    • 5102 Fine or coarse animal hair, neither carded nor combed (excl. wool, hair and bristles used in the manufacture of brooms and brushes, and horsehair from the…
    • 5103 Waste of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair, incl. yarn waste (excl. garnetted stock, waste of hair and bristles used in the manufacture of brooms and…
  • 97 · Works of art; collectors' pieces and antiques
    • 97 WORKS OF ART, COLLECTORS' PIECES AND ANTIQUES
    • 9705 Collections and collector's pieces of zoological, botanical, mineralogical, anatomical, historical, archaeological, palaeontological, ethnographic or…
Notifying member
United Kingdom
Status
Emergency measure, may already apply
Objectives
  • Animal health
Area
SPS: Food safety, animal and plant healthSanitary and phytosanitary measures
Notification type
Emergency notifications (SPS)
Document symbol
G/SPS/N/GBR/135
Keywords
Animal health, Foot and mouth disease

Key dates

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Comment deadline
Not set in the notification
Proposed adoption
Not set in the notification
Proposed entry into force

How to comment

The notification sets no comment deadline. To comment, contact your country's WTO SPS enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/SPS/N/GBR/135; it forwards comments to the United Kingdom.

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What the notification says

These declarations of special measures are necessary to prevent the incursion of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) to the United Kingdom. The measures prohibit the import of hay and straw and certain animal by-products from animals susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease from any countries, or zones within countries, that are not recognised by the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) as free of foot-and-mouth disease – either with or without vaccination. This is in line with the recommendations set down in Articles 8.8.28, 8.8.30, 8.8.32, 8.8.33 and 8.8.36-8.8.40 of the WOAH Terrestrial Code. The prohibition does not apply to animal by-products if they are an intermediate product, a trade sample or research and diagnostic samples.

Sources

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