DUTY CALLS is your weekly look at changes in the South African tariff dispensation and amendments to Customs and Excise legislation. This column aims to provide the reader with a summary of the main changes and is not intended to be a comprehensive statement of the law. No liability is accepted for errors or omissions. Tariff Amendments Ð cautionary note With retrospective effect to 1 January 2002 the check digits for tariff subheadings 0219.91 and 0210.92 (meat of bovine animals), 0709.59 (other vegetables, fresh or chilled), 4010.32 and 4010.39 (conveyor or transmission belts or belting, of vulcanised rubber) have been amended. The duty on electronic integrated circuits and micro assemblies Ð monolithic integrated circuits has been amended from 15% ad valorem and corrected to duty free with retrospective effect to 1 January 2002. The ad valorem customs and excise duty (contra duty) in respect of parts and accessories (excluding parts and accessories for thermo-copying machines) has been reduced to free with retrospective effect to 1 January 2002. Response due The proposed rebate of the duty on waxes of polyethylene glycol, for the manufacture of products and preparations of a kind used in the paper industry. Response due by July 26. Compiled by Riaan de Lange of Deloitte & Touche Trade & Investment Solutions. E-mail: rdelange@deloitte.co.za
