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This week’s selected highlights in the Customs and Excise environment:

28 Oct 2016 1 min read Tax and Exchange Control Alert - 28 October 2016 Article

This week’s selected highlights in the Customs and Excise environment:

  • Amendment of Schedule 2 of the Customs and Excise Act, No 91 of 1964 (Act) by inserting item 204.05, TH200410.2 – “Chips or French fries” imported from or originating in Belgium and the Netherlands.

  • Amendment of Rule 64D of the Act relating to removals of goods in bond.

  • Amendment of Schedule 1 Part 1, its Notes and Schedule 10 and insertion of Rule 49E of the Act to give effect to the implementation of the preferential trade agreement between MERCOSUR and SACU (with retrospective effect from 1 April 2016).

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