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 8 August 2002 Schedule No.1 Part 2B Note 3 has been amended to the effect that for the purposes of items 126.01 to 126.05 the following motor vehicles shall be deemed not to be excisable: motor vehicles manufactured solely from second hand parts or from second hand and new parts, as the Commissioner may decide; and motor vehicles which are manufactured by the conversion of excisable or non-excisable motor vehicles. Schedule No.1 Part 2B Note 4 has been amended. The effect of this amendment is that for the purposes of items 126.01, 126.02, 126.04 and 126.05 the expression 'vehicle mass' shall not include the mass of any fuel or water but shall include the mass of any lubricants, spare wheel and tools which are supplied as standard equipment. Response Due on Anti-dumping Notice Notice of the initiation of a sunset review of the anti-dumping duties on circuit breakers, classifiable under tariff subheading 8536.20, originating in or imported from Hager and Groupe Schneider of France and originating in or imported from Bticino of Italy or their Agent B Trading of Switzerland. Response due by 3 September 2002. Response Due on Tariff Applications The proposed reduction of the duty on chain-driven, six or eight-wheeled vehicles with skid steering systems operated through an integral gearbox and differential unit fitted with diesel engines of a cylinder capacity not exceeding 1 000cc, classifiable under tariff subheading 8703.31.91, from 40% ad valorem to free of duty. The proposed reduction of the duty on telephone sets and parts thereof, classifiable under tariff subheading 8517.11, 8517.19.10 and 8517.90.10, from 10% ad valorem to free of duty. Responses due by 30 August 2002. Compiled by Riaan de Lange of Deloitte & Touche Trade & Investment Solutions. E-mail: rdelange@deloitte.co.za
