procedure vs red tape

procedure and red tape both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
procedure	Yes	No	No	No
red tape	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, red tape is a hyponym of procedure; that is, red tape is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than procedure:

Other hyponyms of procedure include bureaucratic procedure, objection.

procedure (noun)	red tape (noun)
a particular course of action intended to achieve a result	needlessly time-consuming procedure
a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings
a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program