On 15 August 2025, the South African Revenue Service (SARS) advised that the “Prohibited and Restricted Imports and Exports List” had been updated to include tariff headings 8716.90.30, 8716.90.40, and tariff subheadings 4101.20.10, 4101.20.90, 4101.50.10, 4101.50.90, 4101.90.10, and 4101.90.90, which now require a Veterinary Import Permit.
The tariff subheadings’ descriptions are:
- 87.16 Trailers and semi-trailers; other vehicles, not mechanically propelled; parts thereof:
- 8716.90 Parts:
- 8716.90.30 Other, of wheelbarrows
- 8716.90.40 Automatic slack adjusters
- 41.01 Raw hides and skins of bovine (including buffalo) or equine animals (fresh, or salted, dried, limed, pickled or otherwise preserved, but not tanned, parchment-dressed or further prepared), whether or not dehaired or split:
- 4101.20 Whole hides and skins, unsplit, of a mass per skin not exceeding 8kg when simply dried, 10kg when dry-salted, or 16kg when fresh, wet-salted or otherwise preserved:
- 4101.20.10 Of bovine animals of a unit surface area exceeding 2,15 m² which have undergone a tanning process (including a pre-tanning process) which is reversible
- 4101.20.90 Other
- 4101.50 Whole hides and skins, of a mass exceeding 16 kg:
- 4101.50.10 Which have undergone a tanning process (including a pretanning process) which is reversible
- 4101.50.90 Other
- 4101.90 Other, including butts, bends and bellies:
- 4101.90.10 Which have undergone a tanning process (including a pretanning process) which is reversible
- 4101.90.90 Other