Special and Extra
Attendance
The South African Revenue
Service (Sars) has released
its Customs External
Policy for Special and
Extra Attendance, which
is effective from 06 April.
To summarise: (a) Clients
are required to apply to
Customs where special
or extra attendance is
required in the supervision
of: (i) Receipt of sight bill
of entry; (ii) Export under
customs supervision for:
(A) Unpack and repack at
the request of the client; (B)
Temporary imports; and
(C) Examination without
prejudice; (iii) Destruction
of goods; and (iv) Embargo
release. Also included in
this document are (b) the
charges levied for special
and extra attendance.
Manage Diesel Refund
Calculations
Sars has released its Excise
External Policy to Manage
Diesel Refund Calculations,
which is effective from
05 April. To summarise,
it applies to diesel refund
registrants claiming a refund
in terms of rebate item
670.04 of schedule 6 to the
Customs and Excise Act 91
of 1964.
2017 WCO Knowledge
Academy
The World Customs
Organisation (WCO)
has announced that its
Knowledge Academy for
Customs and Trade will, for
2017, host a week-intensive
academy from June 19-25,
focusing on the development
of technical skills for customs
and trade practitioners at its
headquarters in Brussels,
Belgium.
The WCO expects to
bring together the foremost
experts in Customs matters
to meet the demands of a
complex international and
cross-border trading system.
Business professionals,
customs managers and
administrators, border
agency officials, international
organisation representatives,
and academia will benefit
from the intensive interactive
discussions of the most
pertinent topics in the
customs environment today.
The courses will be
led by technical experts
widely respected in their
various fields and will also
include instructors from
private sector companies,
government institutions,
and academia. The primary
objective of the academy is
to provide intense training
for customs and business
practitioners and is open to
all interested participants.
Registration is free for one
participant from each WCO
member administration.
A fee applies for additional
participants from WCO
member administrations and
for non-WCO members. The
public sector learning track
will have interpretation in
English and in French.
Kuwait 109th RKC
party
On 13 April Kuwait became
the 109th contracting party to
the International Convention
on the Simplification and
Harmonisation of Customs
Procedures (Revised Kyoto
Convention or RKC) and the
69th contracting party to the
Convention on Temporary
Admission (Istanbul
Convention).
The RKC entered into force
on 03 February 2006, and
the Istanbul Convention on
27 November 1993.
2017/18 Trade recovery
expected
According to the World
Trade Organisation (WTO),
growth in the volume of
world merchandise trade is
expected to rebound from its
tepid performance in 2016 to
2.4% in 2017.
Duty Calls Watch List
Comment on the Sunset
Review of anti-dumping
duties on frozen bone-in
portions of chickens (fowls
of species gallus domesticus),
is due by 24 April; and on
National Treasury’s diesel fuel
tax refund system by 15 May.
Duty Calls
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