Authorities & Agencies Directory
The trade institutions, commodity boards, standards and phytosanitary bodies, and revenue/customs authorities involved in exporting from Tanzania — Mainland and Zanzibar. Export.tz is independent of all of them; each entry links to the authority's own official website.
41 authorities listed.
Bank of Tanzania — Export Credit Guarantee Scheme
Trade Finance & InsuranceNational — A credit guarantee fund established in July 2002 and administered by the Bank of Tanzania on…
Business Registrations and Licensing Agency
Business RegistrationMainland Tanzania — Executive agency under the Ministry of Industry and Trade responsible for company/business registration, business name registration,…
Cashewnut Board of Tanzania
Commodity BoardNational — Cashewnut Board of Tanzania is a statutory body established under the Cashew Industry Act (Chapter 203)…
Cereals and Other Produce Board of Tanzania
Commodity BoardNational — Statutory body established under the Cereals and Other Produce Act No. 19 of 2009, under the…
Cereals and Other Produce Regulatory Authority
Government AgencyMainland — Statutory regulator for cereals and other produce (including maize, rice, sesame, wheat, millet and sorghum), established…
Chief Government Chemist Laboratory Agency (CGCLA), Zanzibar
Laboratory TestingZanzibar — Sampling, chemical inspection, FTIR/microscopy material-composition analysis
Cotton Development Trust Fund
Government AgencyNational — Statutory trust fund under the Tanzania Cotton Board, financed by a levy on cotton exports, used…
East African Community
Trade InstitutionRegional — Regional intergovernmental organization. Sets the Common External Tariff applied to non-EAC rice imports (75% ad valorem…
FAO Intergovernmental Group on Hard Fibres
Trade InstitutionInternational — Intergovernmental consultation forum on trends in production, consumption, trade and prices of hard fibres, convened under…
Government Chemist Laboratory Authority
Laboratory TestingNational — Established under the Government Chemist Laboratory Authority Act No. 8 of 2016 as Tanzania's supreme referral…
Ministry of Agriculture (Tanzania)
Government AgencyNational — Lead government ministry for Tanzania's agriculture sector, including administration of the National Rice Development Strategy and…
Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism
Government AgencyNational — Policy-owning ministry for beekeeping (National Beekeeping Policy 1998; Implementation Strategy 2021-2031). Sets sector targets including raising…
National Food Reserve Agency
Government AgencyNational — Statutory strategic grain reserve agency; holds national cereal stocks (documented role is primarily maize-focused; rice-specific reserve…
SIDO Packaging Centre
PackagingNational — Small Industries Development Organisation's packaging support centre (Dar es Salaam) — materials, label design and training…
Tanzania Bureau of Standards
Government AgencyNational — National standards body; sets and enforces the milled rice quality standard (based on East African Standard…
Tanzania Bureau of Standards
Certification & StandardsNational — National standards body — formulates and enforces Tanzania Standards (TZS), certifies product/quality compliance, and enforces EAC-harmonized…
Tanzania Coffee Board
Commodity BoardNational — Tanzania Coffee Board is the government body regulating coffee growing, processing, quality and marketing under the…
Tanzania Cotton Association
Trade InstitutionNational — Statutory trade association for cotton buyers, ginners and exporters, established 1997/98. Under the Cotton Industry Regulations,…
Tanzania Cotton Board
Commodity BoardMainland — Statutory regulator for the cotton sector under the Cotton Industry Act, Chapter 201 (amended as recently…
Tanzania Cotton Board (TCB)
Laboratory TestingMainland Tanzania — HVI cotton fibre testing (Spectrum II)
Tanzania Edible Oilseeds Actors
Trade InstitutionNational — Membership-based association of oilseed value-chain actors explicitly covering sunflower, sesame and other edible oilseed commodities, grown…
Tanzania Forest Services Agency
Government AgencyNational — Manages gazetted bee reserves under the Beekeeping Act (e.g. Mialo Kwamtoro National Bee Reserve, Chemba District,…
Tanzania National Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of CommerceNational — Formerly branded TCCIA (Tanzania Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture); rebranded as the Tanzania National Chamber…
Tanzania Plant Health and Pesticides Authority
Government AgencyNational — Phytosanitary and pesticide regulator under the Plant Health Act 2020. Capsicum (chilli) export farms must be…
Tanzania Plant Health and Pesticides Authority
Phytosanitary CertificationMainland Tanzania — Tanzania's National Plant Protection Organization (NPPO) under the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC). Established by Act…
Tanzania Ports Authority
Shipping & Port LogisticsNational — Established under the Ports Act No. 17 of 2004 as Tanzania's landlord port authority, promoting the…
Tanzania Private Sector Federation
Trade InstitutionNational — Tanzania Private Sector Federation (formerly known as Tanzania Private Sector Foundation) is the apex private-sector umbrella…
Tanzania Revenue Authority — Customs & TANCIS
Export Documentation & ComplianceNational — Administers customs and excise duties and export declarations via TANCIS (Tanzania Customs Integrated System). A licensed…
Tanzania Shipping Agencies Corporation
Shipping & Port LogisticsNational — Established under the TASAC Act No. 14 of 2017, TASAC regulates shipping-agency operations and maritime transport…
Tanzania Sisal Board
Commodity BoardMainland — Statutory regulator for the sisal sector established under the Sisal Industry Act, 1997, which also allowed…
Tanzania Sisal Board
Laboratory TestingMainland Tanzania — Statutory fibre/product grading at multiple checkpoints
Tanzania Tobacco Board
Commodity BoardNational — Tanzania Tobacco Board is the crop regulatory body established under the Tobacco Industry Act No. 24…
Tanzania Trade Development Authority
Trade InstitutionNational — Statutory body established by Act No. 4 of 2009 with regulatory, executive, advisory and consultative power…
Zanzibar Bureau of Standards
Certification & StandardsZanzibar — Zanzibar's own national standards body, established under the Zanzibar Standard Act No. 1 of 2011 —…
Zanzibar Business and Property Registration Agency
Business RegistrationZanzibar — Zanzibar's own business registrar, established under Act No. 13 of 2012, replacing the former Registrar General's…
Zanzibar Investment Promotion Authority
Government AgencyZanzibar — ZIPA is Zanzibar's semi-autonomous investment facilitation agency, providing one-stop investment certification, business registration, licensing and aftercare…
Zanzibar Maritime Authority
Export Documentation & ComplianceZanzibar — Zanzibar's maritime safety and regulatory authority. Export/import documentation for cargo moving through Zanzibar's ports must carry…
Zanzibar National Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of CommerceZanzibar — ZNCC is the umbrella private-sector business association for Zanzibar, representing traders and businesses across industry and…
Zanzibar Ports Corporation
Shipping & Port LogisticsZanzibar — Parastatal port operator for Zanzibar, established under Act No. 1 of 1997 — separate from Mainland…
Zanzibar Revenue Authority
Government AgencyZanzibar — Zanzibar's own revenue body, established under the ZRA Act No. 11 of 2022 (repealing the earlier…
Zanzibar State Trading Corporation
Government AgencyZanzibar — ZSTC is a Zanzibar Revolutionary Government parastatal established in 1966 as the legal buyer and exporter…
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