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3.64. Mongolia continues to apply export duties, including on five categories of wood products as at July 2020 (Table 3.16). There were no significant changes to the products subject to export duty during the review period. A specific export tax is also applied certain skins of goats (Table 3.17). According to the authorities, the export duties were established to protect the environment and avoid excessive wood cutting.

Table 3.16 Export duty for certain commodities, 2020

Product/commodity: Fuel wood, in logs, in billets, in twigs, in faggots or in similar forms; wood in chips or particles; sawdust and wood waste and scrap, whether or not agglomerated in logs, briquettes, pellets or similar forms
HS code: 4401
Duty amount: MNT 150,000/m3

Product/commodity: Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared.
HS code: 4403
Duty amonut: MNT 150,000/m3

Product/commodity: Railway or tramway sleepers (cross-ties) of wood
HS code: 4406
Duty amount: MNT 150,000/m3

Product/commodity: Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6 mm
HS code: 4407
Duty amount: MNT 150,000/m3

Product/commodity: Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, Wood (including strips and friezes for parquet flooring, not assembled) (...)
HS code: 4409
Duty amount: MNT 150,000/m3

3.66. According to a government resolution of July 2019, the export of Saker falcons is prohibited. This is a continuation of an earlier measure from 2013 that applied for five years. It was prohibited during the entire review period. (...)

Table 3.18 List of goods prohibited to export, 2020
Good: Toxic and hazardous chemicals prohibited or unlicensed in Mongolia
Legal reference: Government Resolution No. 95 of 2007 on Articles 5.1, 6.4, and 15.4 of the Law on Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals

Table 3.18 List of goods prohibited to export, 2020
Good: Waste ferrous and non-ferrous metals (cast iron, steel, copper, brass, aluminium and their alloys), cast and other primary ferrous and non-ferrous metals, spare parts and products made of ferrous and non-ferrous metals not used for their intended purpose, except for beer cans
Legal reference: Parliament Resolution No. 05 of 1988

Table 3.18 List of goods prohibited to export, 2020
Good: The animals and plants listed in Annex 1 to the CITES for purposes other than research
Legal reference: CITES

Good: Very rare and endangered plants and their derivatives, except for research purposes or as a final product
Legal reference: Articles 17.4 and 17.5 of the Law on Natural Plants

Good: Saker falcons
Legal reference: Government Resolution No. 293 of 2019

Table 3.19 Restricted goods subject to export licensing, 2020
Good: Very rare living animals
Legal reference: Article 36.1 of the Law on Fauna
Licensing Agency: Ministry of Environment and Tourism

Good: Live animals other than very rare animals, raw materials of their origin, research samples, and specimens
Legal reference: Article 36.2 of the Law on Fauna
Licensing Agency: Ministry of Environment and Tourism

Good:Very rare and endangered plants and their derivatives for research purposes or as a final product
Legal reference:Articles 17.4 and 17.5 of the Law on Natural Plants
Licensing Agency: Ministry of Environment and Tourism

Good: Endangered species of wildlife and flora
Legal reference: CITES, Annex 2
Licensing agency: Ministry of Environment and Tourism

Table 3.19 Restricted goods subject to export licensing, 2020
Good: Plants, perennial roots, rhizomes and tubers of plants
Legal reference: Articles 17.1 and 17.3 of the Law on Natural Plants
Licensing Agency: Ministry of Environment and Tourism

Table 3.19 Restricted goods subject to export licensing, 2020

Good: Toxic and hazardous chemicalsa [a]
Legal reference: Law on Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals; Law on Licensing of Business Activities; Government Resolution No. 95 of 2007
Licensing Agency: Ministry of Environment and Tourism

[a] Also applies to goods in transit.

3.80 (...) The Sustainable Development Vision 2030 has several goals for standards, in particular regarding the adoption of international standards in the animal health, fuel, and food sectors (...).