Standards (Compulsory Batch Certification of Imports) Regulations, 1998 (G.N. No. 672 of 1998).

Any import of products covered by compulsory Tanzania standard shall, at least one week before arrival of their import shipment, apply to the Tanzania Bureau of Standards for the batch certificate. "batch certificate" means a certificate issued by the Bureau certifying or attesting that a particular import consignment or shipment of the commodity as sampled and attested conforms to the specified Tanzania standard or international or foreign standard recognised by the Bureau. no person shall unload for the Tanzanian market commodities or products not conforming to the requirements of the Tanzania standards or commodity or product for which no batch certificate has been issued. A conditional release certificate can be issued if testing of the shipment takes more than twenty working days. (13 regulations)