ANNOUNCEMENT 01 Jan 2012

In January 2012, the members of SACU announced a change in import duties.

NUMBER OF INTERVENTIONS

1

  • 0 harmful
  • 0 neutral
  • 1 liberalising

SOURCE



Eaglestone Securities, 16 March 2015, Inside Africa 'newsletter', p. 2: http://www.eaglestone.eu/xms/files/Inside_Africa_Eaglestone_Advisory_16_March_2015.pdf.


Inception date: 01 Jan 2012 | Removal date: open ended

Import tariff

Effective 1 January 2012, the government of South Africa removed import duties on a range of products.
The prior rates were:

  • Paper and cardboard: 1.95 percent.
  • Aluminium foil & plates: 1.3 percent.
  • Polymers: 2.6 percent.

 
Affected trading partners
The GTA retrieves its data on affected trading partners from UN Comtrade. However, for the year 2011, the database was not available to provide the affected trading partners for Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland.

AFFECTED SECTORS

 
321 347 353 415

AFFECTED PRODUCTS

 
340211 340212 340213 340219 340220 340290 390110 390120 390130 390190 390210 390220 390230 390290 390410 390421 390422 390461 390490 390521 390529 390530 390599 480256 480257 480261 480269 481013 481014 481019 481022 481029 481031 481032 481039 481092 481099 481110 481141 481151 481159 481190 481620 481690 760611 760612 760691 760692 760711 760719 760720
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