On 04 August 2025, the South African Revenue Service (SARS) announced that the ‘Prohibited and Restricted Imports and Exports List’ had been updated, with tariff subheading 9018.12 no longer requiring a Letter of Authority (LOA), and that a number of tariff subheadings had been added under tariff subheading 2709.19.
Tariff Subheadings 9018.12
- 90.18 Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments:
- 9018.1 Electro-diagnostic apparatus (including apparatus for functional exploratory examination or for checking physiological parameters):
- 9018.12 Ultrasonic scanning apparatus
- 2709.00 Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude
Tariff Subheadings 2710.19
27.10 Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals (excluding crude); preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing by mass 70 per cent or more of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils:
2710.1 Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals (excluding crude) and preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing by mass 70 per cent or more of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic constituents of the preparations (excluding those containing biodiesel and excluding waste oils):
2710.19 Other
2710.19.07 Aviation kerosene, as defined in Additional Note 1(d)
2710.19.09 Power kerosene, as defined in Additional Note 1(e)
2710.19.15 Illuminating kerosene, as defined in Additional Note 1(f), marked
2710.19.26 Illuminating kerosene, as defined in Additional Note 1(f), unmarked
2710.19.30 Distillate fuel, as defined in Additional Note 1(g)
2710.19.35 Residual fuel oils, as defined in Additional Note 1(h)
2710.19.37 Specific aliphatic hydrocarbons solvents, as defined in Additional Note 1(ij), marked
2710.19.39 Specified hydrocarbon solvents, as defined in Additional Note 1(ij), unmarked
2710.19.45 Mixed alkylenes
2710.19.47 Lubricating grease
2710.19.49 Prepared lubricating oils, in containers holding less than 5 litres
2710.19.52 Other prepared lubricating oils
2710.19.55 Base oils for prepared lubricating oil, manufactured by the refining of used lubricating oil or other used oil
2710.19.57 Other base oils for prepared lubricating oil
2710.19.60 Transformer oil and cable oil
2710.19.70 Other insulating oil or dielectric oil
2710.19.80 Hydraulic transmission fluids
2710.19.90 Other