• Certain products originated in, or coming from, the Russian Federation (Import Prohibition based on Foreign Exchange Order)
• Mercury and mercury-added products

Non-automatic

• Pursue obligations under the UN Charter and other international treaties (i.e. CITES, Basel Convention, Rotterdam Convention, UNSC Resolutions etc.)

Same as the "Administrative bodies"

• https://www.cas.go.jp/jp/seisaku/hourei/data/FTA.pdf

• G/LIC/N/3/JPN/22
• G/LIC/N/2/JPN/4

• Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act Act No. 228 of (December 1, 1949)

  
  

  This English translation of the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act has been prepared up to the revisions of Act No. 102 of 2005 Effective October 1, 2007 in compliance with the Standard Bilingual Dictionary March 2006 edition
  
  This is an unofficial translation.
  
  Article 6.10 - approvals
  
  Article 8(1) permission to import, approvals

  
  

• G/LIC/N/2/JPN/4

  
  

  Designation of specified mercury and mercury-added products as the products subject to import licensing procedures under the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act To adopt import licensing procedures for specified mercury and mercury-added products to ensure the implementation of the Minamata Convention on Mercury (adopted in October, 2013) aimed to protect the human health and the environment from anthropogenic emissions and releases of mercury and mercury compounds.

  
  

  Table 1: List of products subject to licensing procedures:

  
  

  Items		Date of Entry
  · Mercury (including mixtures of mercury with other substances, including alloys of mercury, with a mercury concentration of at least 95 per cent by weight)	From Non-Parties	The date when the Minamata Convention on Mercury enters into force in Japan
  The following specified mercury-added products and products in which the following specified mercury-added products are used as components:
  · Batteries (excluding the following): - Button zinc silver oxide batteries (Button cells with a mercury content less than 1% by weight) - Button zinc air batteries (Button cells with a mercury content less than 2% by weight)		1/1/2018 31/12/2020(button alkali batteries)
  - Switches and relays		31/12/2020
  - Single-ended compact fluorescent lamps and self-ballasted fluorescent lamps for general lighting purposes that are less than or equal to 30 watts of rated power consumption with a mercury content exceeding 5 mg per lamp burner		1/1/2018
  · The followings, among linear fluorescent lamps (LFLs) for general lighting purposes: - Products that are less than 60 watts of rated power consumption with a mercury content exceeding 5 mg per lamp, using triband phosphor - Products that are equal to or less than 40 watts of rated power consumption with a mercury content exceeding 10 mg per lamp, using halophosphate phosphor		1/1/2018
  High pressure mercury vapour lamps (HPMV) for general lighting purposes		31/12/2020
  The following cold cathode fluorescent lamps and external electrode fluorescent lamps (CCFL and EEFL) for electronic displays:		1/1/2018
  · Products whose length is equal to or shorter than 500 mm with a mercury content exceeding 3.5 mg per lamp · Products whose length is longer than 500 mm and equal to or shorter than 1500 mm with a mercury content exceeding 5 mg per lamp · Products whose length is longer than 1500 mm with a mercury content exceeding 13 mg per lamp
  Cosmetics		1/1/2018
  Pesticides, biocides and topical antiseptics		1/1/2018 31/12/2020(topical antiseptics)
  The following non-electronic measuring devices except non-electronic measuring devices used for high precision measurement, where no suitable mercury-free alternative is available: (a) barometers; (b) hygrometers; (c) manometers; (d) thermometers; (e) sphygmomanometers