DUTY CALLS
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Duty Credit Certificate Workshops hosted
during April
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is hosting a number of Duty Credit Certificate Scheme (DCCS) workshops in the main textile and clothing centres during April.
The intention of these workshops is to accredit companies as either a Registered Professional Claims Administrator, Professional Claims Administrator, or DCCS Accredited Auditor.
More information of the dates, times and venues of the workshops are available on request.
Tariff amendments
- 12 April
Rebate item 310.05/4811.51/
01.06 has been amended. The effect of the amendment is that tariff subheading 4811.31 in respect of paper and paperboard, coated, impregnated or covered with plastics (excluding adhesives), in rolls or sheets, bleached, of a mass of more than 150g/m2, for the manufacture of printed frozen food or beverage containers is deleted and inserted under tariff subheading 4811.51 at a full rebate of duty, with effect from 1 January 2002.
Rebate items 313.06/6911.10 and 313.06/ 69.12 have been amended. The effect of the amendment is that the wording of provisions for a rebate of the duty on undecorated and glazed cups and saucers, plates, mugs, sweet dishes, and other tableware, for the decoration thereof and a further process if heat treatment, is amended to exclude decoration on the base and that extent of rebate is amended from Ôfull dutyÕ to Ôfull duty less 16.5%Õ.
A number of 3rd Schedule manufacturing rebates have been withdrawn.
Termination of anti-dumping investigations
- 5 April
The termination of the following investigations:
Investigation into the alleged circumvention of the anti-dumping duty on aluminium hollowware imported from Egypt and manufactured by manufacturers other than Atlas Aluminium Factory and Sally Aluminium Industries.
Investigation into the alleged dumping of carton board originating in or imported from Spain, Austria, Germany and the Netherlands.
Investigation into the alleged circumvention of circuit breakers originating in or imported from Hager in France.
Review of the anti-dumping duty on clear float glass in sheets originating in or imported from Thailand and Singapore.
Tariff applications - Response due
The proposed increase
in the rate of duty on trichloroisocyanuric acid containing sodium tetraborate penthahydrate, classifiable under tariff subheading 3808.40.90, from free of duty to 10% ad valorem. Response due May, 9.
The proposed reduction in the rate of duty and the amendment of the description of tariff subheadings pertaining to certain machine tools i.e. presses, hydraulic and presses of the guillotine type. Response due May, 3.
The proposed reduction in the rate of duty on miniaturised non-linear fluorescent lamps, commonly known as compact fluorescent light bulbs, classifiable under tariff subheading 8539.39.90, from 15% ad valorem to free of duty. Response due April, 26.
Compiled by Riaan de Lange of Deloitte & Touche Trade & Investment Solutions. E-mail: rdelange@deloitte.co.za
