Customs duties account for less than 5% of tax collected in South Africa. Their importance lies in trade policy rather than revenue generation. Their impact is being squandered because of slowness in ...

Companies seeking either relief on customs duties in the absence of local suppliers, or their imposition to protect local industry, face an “opaque” process with no clear timetable or information ...

South African customs officials at the Oliver Tambo International Airport say they have intercepted 267 kilograms of ivory shipped from Zimbabwe enroute to Vietnam. The ivory is worth an estimated ...

Last month, China’s General Administration of Customs released its customs data for 2023. The data showed that China’s total trade with Africa grew a modest 1.5 percent in 2023, reaching $282.1 ...