East Africa Gold Doré 2026: Tanzania’s File Versus Uganda and DRC

As of September 2026, this page is the cross-border dore brief: Tanzania, Uganda and DRC are separate files. A Tanzania Mining Commission class does not travel. Confirm live Tanzania forms before you treat a regional roadmap as a permit. Tanzania gold dealing sits on the gold-business class guide.

This page is the three-country split: what is not portable. It is not a Tanzania gold-export calculator, not a gemstone-class note, and not a parcel-courier manual.

• Tanzania gold export — legal 2026 compliance
• Gemstone vs gold classes — Commission classes
• Overlapping claims — cadastre

As at 10 September 2026. Confirm tumemadini.go.tz, Uganda’s DGSM / ministry of mines, and the DRC cadastre the week you take metal. ICGLR guidance moves. This page freezes no assay fee.

Three codes, three exporters of record

Buying doré in Kampala on a Dar dealer class is how a seizure starts. Buying in South Kivu on a Kampala story is the same seizure with a longer road. Each country wants the exporter of record to be its own licensed person. Banks in Dubai will ask for the export certificate from the country of export, not from the country of the holding company.

Tanzania: do not copy the export guide here

The Tanzania gold-export page already walks dealer class, royalty, and why a courier sample is not an export. This map only needs the portability point: that pack stays inside Tanzania. Refining, smelting and dealing remain different Commission classes. Gemstones remain a different class. Paste nothing from a DRC artisanal lot onto a Geita invoice.

Uganda and DRC — what this desk will not fake

Uganda’s dealer and export instruments, and the DRC’s artisanal versus industrial split, belong on those governments’ live sites. This page will not reprint a Ugandan royalty or a DRC code article from a 2022 PDF. ICGLR regional certification for conflict-prone minerals is a due-diligence overlay on DRC (and sometimes transit) gold. It is not a Tanzanian Mining Commission class. If your chain touches the DRC, build ICGLR and OECD due-diligence files; do not assume a Dar assay certificate is enough.

Sequence for a buyer who was sold ‘East Africa gold’

1. Name the country of export, not the region.
2. Print the dealer / export class in that country, in the name that will be on the airway bill.
3. Print the tax instrument that country uses for royalty or export tax. Do not copy Tanzania’s rate onto Uganda.
4. If the metal touched the DRC, add ICGLR / OECD due diligence. If it did not, do not pretend it did — and do not pretend it did not if it did.
5. Open the Tanzania gold-export guide only for Tanzania lots.
6. Do not move ‘samples’ in hand luggage from any of the three.

Each lot has an origin country

Tanzania lots still need a Mining Commission class under Cap. 123 plus the live export and inspection papers. Uganda and DRC are other statutes. A Kenya transit story is not origin. This page is a regional map. Tanzania’s shipment file is the export keeper. No price or royalty freeze.

LBMA and bank KYC sit beside the origin class. They do not replace it. A refinery receipt without the export class is a photograph. The 301 twin on gold trading/export stays a redirect to the Tanzania export keeper. As at 11 September 2026, origin still has to match the lot.

Transit is not origin. A refinery receipt is not an export class.

A lot that left Tanzania still needs the Tanzania export and inspection papers the live Commission path names. A lot that left Uganda or the DRC needs those countries’ instruments. Parking the lot in Kenya does not rewrite origin. LBMA and bank KYC sit beside the origin class. They do not replace it.

Tanzania’s shipment walkthrough is the export keeper. The gold-trading-export twin stays a 301 there. This page stays the regional map. No price freeze. As at 11 September 2026, write the origin country on the lot before you write the refinery.