Application for a temporary rebate of duty on certain hot-rolled steel (Seriously! Again!)
Duferco Steel Processing applied for a rebate of the normal customs and safeguard duties on tariff codes 7208.27, ,7208.39 and 7225.30 when used in a re-rolling process (this being a massive oversimplification, but the details are noted below). ITAC took the decision to extended the safeguard duties currently in place on hot-rolled steel beyond the […]
Request to increase duties on steel cans
Rheem SA and SA Steelpack have requested a duty increase on steel cans, holding less than 50 litres, which are closed by soldering or crimping (7310.21) or closed in some other way (7310.29). They have requested the tariff codes be split into more detail to better identify the respective size of the cans and also to […]
Investigation into the rebate of duty on tinplate
ITAC self-initiated a review into the duties on tinplate imported under tariff subheadings 7210.11, 7210.12.10, 7210.12.90 and 7212.10, in February 2020 (you can read more about this review here). This followed the closure of ArcelorMittal’s tinplate line in November 2019. In the period November 2019 to June 2020, downstream users of tinplate imported R519m worth […]