Red tape - Tradução em português

Inglês: Red tape
Português: Burocracia

Exemplos:

1 - The Venezuelan government accuses businessmen of holding back basic products, but analysts say cutting red tape to facilitate imports is too little, too late.
2 - What these businesses want is relief from the burden of taxation and red tape.

Also: bureaucracy

3 - In Germany, a genocidal society was working with state bureaucracy to roll out the massive program of the Holocaust.

Source: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Red+tape