Integrated National
Export Strategy
The Department of Trade
and Industry (dti) has invited
participation in its National
Stakeholder Consultative
Workshop on the Integrated
National Export Strategy
(INES) or Export 2030
themed: ‘Export promoting
industrialisation to spur
growth amid economic crisis
and beyond.’ The workshop
will be held in Pretoria on 17
March.
According to the dti the
National Development Plan
(NDP) 2030 specifically
highlights that exports (as
measured in volume terms)
should grow by 6% a year to
2030 with non-traditional
exports growing by 10% a
year, a target incorporated
into the INES to achieve
economic growth and exportoriented
employment.
Trade and Investment
South Africa (Tisa) has taken
the lead and collaborated with
the private and public sectors
to evaluate the effectiveness
of its export strategy and
recommended a more suitable
model that would better
accelerate South African
export growth, giving it a
competitive edge. These
contributions to the strategy
and programme continue
to pave the way to increase
exports of value-added and
beneficiated goods and
services to targeted and
prioritised markets.
The INES, which
focuses on areas such
as competitiveness;
prioritisation of markets;
market access; financing
mechanisms; stakeholder
alignment; export
promotion mechanisms;
and monitoring and
evaluation requirements,
is being reviewed through
a national consultative
process with all
stakeholders within the
export value chain.
According to the dti
further inputs from the
National Stakeholder
Consultative Workshop will
be incorporated into the draft
INES resulting in a final
strategy with commitment
from all stakeholders on
the implementation of the
strategy.
Customs Cornerstone
Guidelines
On 03 March 2016
the World Customs
Organisation (WCO)
released its ‘Technical
Guidelines on Advance
Rulings for Classification,
Origin and Valuation’
publicly. The purpose,
it says, is to enhance
transparency and to provide
additional information to
any interested party.
According to the WCO
these guidelines were
developed in order to
support the implementation
of Article 3 (Advance
rulings) of the Bali
ministerial decision on
the agreement on trade
facilitation and shared only
among the WCO members.
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WCO trains
Swaziland
The WCO recently
conducted two back-to-back
missions for the Swaziland
Revenue Authority,
focusing on the areas of
tariff classification, origin
and valuation.
Industrial Parks
Feasibility Studies
The dti has received a
grant from the African
Development Bank for the
Enterprise Development
Pilot Project on which
comment is due by
23 March 2016.
Duty Calls’ Watch List
Comment on the following
is due:
Draft Customs Control
Act, 2014 rules by 01 April
2016.
The sunset review of the
anti-dumping duties on
unframed glass mirrors
from India, by 29 March
2016.
The proposed increase
in the rates of ordinary
customs duty on other
plates, sheets, film, foil and
strip of plastics by
18 March 2016.
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