On 29 September, the South African Revenue Service (SARS) announced an increase in the rates of customs duty in Part 1 of Schedule No.1 to the Act, 1964 ‘Ordinary Customs Duty’, by the substitution of various subheadings under tariff headings 72.19 and 72.20 from 5% ad valorem to 10% ad valorem. The reasoning is contained in the International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (ITAC) Report No.644.
The ‘Article Description’ for all the tariff subheadings is ‘Other’, the ‘Statistical Unit’ is ‘kg’, and the rate of duty is 10% ad valorem for ‘General’, ‘MERCOSUR’, and AfCFTA, whilst it remained free of duty or 0% for ‘EU/UK’, ‘EFTA’, ‘SADC’.
The tariff subheadings in question are 7219.11.90; 7219.12.90; 7219.13.90; 7219.14.90; 7219.21.90; 7219.22.90; 7219.23.90; 7219.24.90; 7219.31.90; 7219.32.90; 7219.33.90; 7219.34.90; 7219.35.90; 7219.90.90; 7220.12.90; 7220.20.90; and 7220.90.90.