On 05 April 2024, the South African Revenue Service (SARS) announced a reduction in the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) rate of customs duties in Schedule No.1 Part 1 of the Customs and Excise Act, 1964 (Ordinary Duties) with retrospective effect from 31 January 2024, of tariff subheadings 1211.90.51 ‘Leaves and stems, dried, in immediate packings not exceeding’; 1211.90.53 ‘Other leaves and stems, dried’; 1211.90.59 ‘Other’; 3827.11.05 ‘Containing acyclic hydrocarbons, perhalogenated only with fluorine and chlorine (excluding those containing chlorodifluoromethane, dichlorodifluoromethane or trichlorofluoromethane)’; 4810.13.11 ‘Of a width not exceeding 150 mm’; 4810.14.21 ‘Of a width not exceeding 150 mm’; 4810.19.21 ‘Of a width not exceeding 150 mm’; 4810.29.21 ‘Of a width not exceeding 150 mm’; 4811.60.21 ‘In rolls of a width not exceeding 150 mm’; 4811.90.21 ‘In rolls of a width not exceeding 150 mm’; 7020.00.10 ‘Shower enclosures, including shower doors and shower panels as provided for in Additional Note 3 to Chapter 70’; 7210.20 ‘Plated or coated with lead, including terne plate’; 7210.30 ‘Electrolytically plated or coated with zinc’; 7210.50 ‘Plated or coated with chromium oxides or with chromium and chromium oxides’; 7210.69 ‘Other’; 7212.20 ‘Electrolytically plated or coated with zinc’; 7212.50 ‘Otherwise plated or coated’; 7212.60 ‘Clad’; 7219.11.90 ‘Other’; 7219.12.90 ‘Other’; 7219.13.90 ‘Other’; 7219.14.90 ‘Other’; 7219.21.90 ‘Other’; 7219.22.90 ‘Other’; 7219.23.90 ‘Other’; 7219.24.90 ‘Other’; 7219.31.90 ‘Other’; 7219.32.90 ‘Other’; 7219.33.90 ‘Other’; 7219.34.90 ‘Other’; 7219.35.90 ‘Other’; 7219.90.90 ‘Other’; 7220.12.90 ‘Other’; 7220.20.90 ‘Other’; 7220.90.90 ‘Other’; 7225.91 ‘Electrolytically plated or coated with zinc’; 7225.92.10 ‘Of a thickness of less than 0.45 mm’; 7225.92.90 ‘Other’; 7304.29.05 ‘Of a wall thickness exceeding 4.3 mm but not exceeding 12.7 mm and an outside cross-section dimension exceeding 60 mm but not exceeding 510 mm’; 7304.29.10 ‘Other, of a wall thickness not exceeding 25 mm and an outside cross-sectional dimension not exceeding 178 mm’; 7304.29.90 ‘Other’; and 7314.39 ‘Other’.
