IMPLEMENTATION LEVEL

National

AFFECTED FLOW

Outflow

ANNOUNCED AS TEMPORARY

No

NON-TRADE-RELATED RATIONALE

No

ELIGIBLE FIRMS

all

JUMBO

No

TARIFF PEAK

No
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Inception date: 17 Jul 2015 | Removal date: open ended

Export tax

On 17 July 2014, the Egyptian official gazette published a decree imposing an export duty for several kinds of raw materials like natural sands, marble and granite. After the above mentioned date every exported ton of marble and granite will be charged 200 EGP (26 USD), as well as every exported ton of natural sands will be charged 50 EGP (6.5 USD).

AFFECTED COUNTRIES

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AFFECTED SECTORS AND PRODUCTS

151 Monumental or building stone
2515 Marble, travertine, ecaussine and other calcareous monumental or building stone of an apparent specific gravity of 2.5 or more, and alabaster, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (inc
251511 Crude or roughly trimmed
251512 Merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape
2516 Granite, porphyry, basalt, sandstone and other monumental or building stone, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape.
251620 Sandstone
153 Sands, pebbles, gravel, natural bitumen & asphalt
2505 Natural sands of all kinds, whether or not coloured, other than metalbearing sands of Chapter 26.
250510 Silica sands and quartz sands

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