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Legal Counsel – Secondary Legislation – Tariffs Amendments 2025

Legal Counsel – Secondary Legislation – Tariffs Amendments 2025

26 June 2025 – Customs and Excise Act, 1964: The tariffs amendments notices, scheduled for publication in the Government Gazette, relate to the following amendments:

With effect from 27 June 2025 up to and including 13 January 2026

  • Imposition of provisional payment in relation to safeguard duties against the alleged increased imports of flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of a width of 600 mm or more, clad, plated or coated, with aluminium-zinc alloys, of a thickness of less than 0.45 mm, classifiable under tariff subheadings 7210.61.20 and 7210.61.30 and flat-rolled products of other alloy steel, of a width of 600 mm or more, otherwise plated or coated with zinc, of a thickness of less than 0.45 mm, classifiable under tariff subheadings 7225.92.25 and 7225.92.35 (ITAC Report No. 750)

Effective 27 June 2025

  • Amendment to Part 1 of Schedule No. 1 by the substitution of tariff subheading 8504.90 and insertion of tariff subheadings 8504.90.10 and 8504.90.90 to increase the general rate of customs duty on transformer cores, having a power handling capacity not exceeding 50 000 KVA, classifiable under tariff subheading 8504.90 from 5% to 15% (ITAC Report No. 744)

Publication details will be made available later