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Notification Detail :: G/TBT/N/NZL/109/Add.4

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Proposed changes can be found in the following links:Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan - Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan - Auahi Kore Aotearoa Mahere Rautaki 2025 | Ministry of Health NZ; andCabinet paper- Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan approval, pages 5-6 -https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/information-release/cabinet_paper_smokefree_action_plan_2025.pdf

Objective

Protection of human health or safety (TBT)

Product Covered

24.01 Unmanufactured tobacco; tobacco refuse: 2401.10 – Tobacco, not stemmed/stripped: 24.02 Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos, and cigarettes, of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes: 24.03 Other manufactured tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes; “homogenised” or “reconstituted” tobacco; tobacco extracts and essences: Smoked tobacco products that are combustible and intended to be smoked and inhaled. This includes cigarettes, loose tobacco, pipe tobacco, roll your own tobacco, cigarillos, small cigars, cigars, and any other smoked niche tobacco product.

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HSCODE

2401 - Unmanufactured tobacco; tobacco refuse; 240110 - Tobacco, unstemmed or unstripped; 2402 - Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes; 2403 - Manufactured tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes and "homogenised" or "reconstituted" tobacco, tobacco extracts and tobacco essences (excl. cigars, incl. cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes); 2401 - Unmanufactured tobacco; tobacco refuse; 240110 - Tobacco, unstemmed or unstripped; 2402 - Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes; 2403 - Manufactured tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes and "homogenised" or "reconstituted" tobacco, tobacco extracts and tobacco essences (excl. cigars, incl. cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes)

ICSCODE

65.160 - Tobacco, tobacco products and related equipment; 65.160 - Tobacco, tobacco products and related equipment

Keywords

Human health

Specific Regions

Description

New Zealand’s Ministry of Health Manatū Hauora is holding a targeted consultation on a clarifying amendment to the manner in which the nicotine strength for vaping products containing nicotine salts is expressed in the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Regulations 2021 (the Regulations). This is because there has been some confusion regarding the interpretation of clause 15 of Schedule 5 of the Regulations relating to vaping products. This clause states that the strength of nicotine salt in a vaping substance must not exceed 50mg/mL.The confusion arises because nicotine ‘strength’ levels for products containing nicotine salts can be described in two ways. It could describe the concentration of the nicotine salt in a vaping substance, OR the concentration of freebase nicotine in a vaping substance.For clarification, it is proposed that the wording of the Regulations is amended to always refer to the maximum nicotine concentration of a vaping product, rather than the maximum permitted nicotine salt concentration. For reusable vaping products that contain nicotine salts, it is proposed that the maximum allowable nicotine concentration is set at 28.5mg/mL. Feedback on the proposed clarifying amendment should be sent to New Zealand’s TBT Enquiry Point at wto@standards.govt.nz by 23 June.

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