Regulation of Exports, Imports and Transport of Goods

Type

Decision

Number

844

Date of the text

10/05/1921

Official Gazette

published in 1921

Status today

In force, amended as of 27/08/2026

Articles

7

What it provides

This decree sets new rules from May 1921 for exporting, importing and transporting goods in Syria and Lebanon. It bans exporting listed items such as precious metals, grain, livestock, timber and machinery, requires a security deposit on shipments, and subjects imports to customs duties except for reserved goods like w

What has changed this text

• Partly repealed by High Commissioner Decision No. 944/1921 of 07/07/1921, articles 4

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1921. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.