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
- 30 August 2002
The deletion of rebate items 310.05/4810.12 and 310.05/4811.39 and the insertion of rebate items 310.05/4810.1 and 310.05/
4811.59. The amendments are effective with retrospective effect to 1 January 2002, to account for the World Customs Organisation's (WTO) changes in the Harmonised System of Product Classifications (HS-codes).
Anti-dumping Amendments
- 30 August 2002
The anti-dumping duty on hollowware for table or kitchen use (excluding buckets), of aluminium, imported from or originating in Zimbabwe, is withdrawn. The item in question is 215.05/7615.
19/05.06 and the anti-dumping duty was 110c/kg and effective from 4 April 1996.
Anti-dumping Amendments
- 28 August 2002
Anti-dumping and countervailing duties are imposed on stranded wire, rope and cables of iron or steel, not electrically insulated, of a diameter exceeding 8 mm, classifiable under tariff subheading 7312.10 (excluding that of wire of stainless steel, that of wire plated, coated or clad with copper and that identifiable as conveyor belt cord) imported from or originating in China, Germany, India, the Republic of Korea and United Kingdom and Germany.
The anti-dumping duties vary from 10,4% to 72,4% ad valorem. A residual countervailing duty was imposed on the same product imported or originating in India at a rate of 17% ad valorem.
The items in question are 215.02/7312.10/01.06, 215.02/7312.10/02.06, 215.02/7312.10/03.06, 215.02/7312.10/04.06, 215.02/7312.10/05.06, 215.02/7312.10/06.06,
and 215.02/7312.10/01.06.
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 Application
The proposed rebate of the customs duty on palm stearin, classifiable under tariff subheading 1511.90, for dehydrating and blending with paraffin wax in the manufacture of paraffin wax, wherein the palm stearin content of the blend is 20% or more by mass.
Response due by 19 September 2002.
Compiled by Riaan de Lange of Deloitte & Touche Trade & Investment Solutions. E-mail: rdelange@deloitte.co.za
