Customs

Import Control – Comment due

On 05 August 2022, the Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, under the International Trade Administration Act: Import Control, called for comment by 26 August 2022, which should be directed to Mahendra Shunmoogam by email scrapmetalpolicy2022@thedtic.gov.za

Description of goods and (tariff subheadings):

  • Industrial or laboratory furnaces and ovens, including incinerators, non-electric furnaces and ovens for the roasting, melting or other heat-treatment of ores, pyrites or of metals (8417.10)
  • Other (8417.80)
  • Guillotines - Machine-tools (including presses) for working metal by forging, hammering or die forging (excluding rolling mills); machine-tools (including presses, slitting lines and cut-to-length lines) for working metal by bending, folding, straightening, flattening, shearing, punching, notching or nibbling (excluding draw-benches); presses for working metal or metal carbides, not specified above:
  • Shearing machines (including presses) (excluding combined punching and shearing machines): (8462.32.10, 8462.32.90, 8462.33, 8462.39, 8462.4, 8462.51.20, 8462.51.90, 8462.59.20, 8462.59.90, 8462.61.40, 8462.61.9)
  • Other: --- Of the guillotine type, with a cutting length exceeding 1 000 mm but not exceeding 4 150 mm (excluding those with 3 or more axes) --- Other: 8462.39.90 [i.e., Guillotines with cutting lengths not complying with specifications of tariff heading 8462.39.10 above]. (8462.62.20, 8462.62.90, 8462.63.20, 8462.63.90, 8462.69.20, 8462.69.90, 8462.90.30, 8462.90.90)
  • Granulators – Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter; parts thereof: Other machines and mechanical appliances: (8479.89.90)
  • Shredders - Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter; parts thereof: - Other machines and mechanical appliances:-- Other: --- Other (8479.89.90)

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