red tape vs procedure

red tape and procedure both are nouns.

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

As nouns, procedure is a hypernym of red tape; that is, procedure is a word with a broader meaning than red tape:

red tape (noun)	procedure (noun)
needlessly time-consuming procedure	a particular course of action intended to achieve a result
	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