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Norway requires under the Regulation 2005-10-04 No. 1103 on organic products inspection anc control fees

Exports for commercial purposes of wildlife specimens listed in Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection and Management Act 1998 are prohibited.

Import prohibitions and restrictions are maintained for economic, environmental, health, religious, safety, sanitary, and phytosanitary reasons. (...) Import prohibitions apply to (...) various hazardous chemicals and pesticides, among others. (...)

Table 3.5 Other duties and charges levied on imports, 2013
Description: Environmental tax on sales of plastics
Rate (%): 15
Base: c.i.f.

An environmental tax of 2% is levied on all imports, with a few exceptions

The Land, Surveys and Environment Act, 1989 prohibits the export of live coral. The measure is aimed at preventing further destruction of coral resources, and at ensuring the long-term sustainability of Samoa's fishery resources. (...)

Under the Waste Disposal Ordinance (Chapter 354), imports of hazardous waste from countries listed in the Ninth Schedule of the Ordinance are prohibited.

(…) Regulated risk analyses, non-regulated risk analyses and reviews of existing policy released as drafts but not yet finalised between 2011 and August 2014, include: (…) review of gamma irradiation as a treatment to address pathogens of animal biosecurity concern.

(...) Imports may be banned in exceptional cases as foreseen in Articles XX and XXI of the GATT 1994, e.g. for the protection of human, animal or plant life or health, or for the protection of the environment; (...)

(...) Goods subject to import prohibition include (...) any organic phosphorous compound, and asbestos in all forms. (...)