Customs

High Court makes Judgement in Anti-dumping Case

On 28 and 29 April 2011, the North Gauteng High Court heard the case between the International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (Itac) as the first applicant; Sars as the second applicant; the Minister of Trade and Industry as the third applicant; and the Minister of Finance as the fourth applicant; and Aranda Textile Mills and 74 others as the respondents. The application arose from the decision by the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in the case of Progress Office Machines v The South African Revenue Service (Sars) and Others, where judgement was passed on September 25, 2007. At the time, judgement in this case was reserved On 16 May 2012 Itac issued a press release relating to the High Court judgment passed on 10 May 2012, which found in favour of the applicants. Read the full story in the Duty Calls column in sister print publication FTW.

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