IMPLEMENTATION LEVEL

Supranational

AFFECTED FLOW

Inflow

ANNOUNCED AS TEMPORARY

No

NON-TRADE-RELATED RATIONALE

No

ELIGIBLE FIRMS

all

JUMBO

No

TARIFF PEAK

No
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Inception date: 01 Apr 2011 | Removal date: open ended
Still in force

Import tariff

The International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa has increased the general rate of duty on sewing threads of man-made filaments (HS 5401.10) from free of duty to 15% ad valorem. The rate of duty applicable to the EU, EFTA and SADC remains at free of duty.
 
The duty had originally been 15% ad valorem before its removal in 2008. The increaseis to support the local industry to compete against foreign competition, support full utilization of production capacity and increase its market share. 
 
Affected trading partners
The GTA retrieves its data on affected trading partners from UN Comtrade. However, for the year 2010, the database was not able to provide the affected trading partners for Botswana, Swaziland, and Lesotho.

AFFECTED COUNTRIES

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AFFECTED SECTORS AND PRODUCTS

264 Textile yarn & thread of man-made filaments or staple fibres
5401 Sewing thread of manmade filaments, whether or not put up for retail sale.
540110 Of synthetic filaments

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