Africa-Press – Angola. The Customs Tariff version 2022, to be in force from April 3rd, includes a 37% exemption from import duties, representing a balance at the level of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
According to the head of the Department of Tariffs and Customs Trade of the General Tax Administration, Ângelo Silva, there was a reduction in all products related to agricultural inputs, industrial equipment, roads and automobiles, to facilitate national production to continue to grow..
When speaking at the workshop on the new Customs Tariff, held this Tuesday, in Luanda, the person in charge highlighted that the document has a set of five thousand and 953 tariff lines, bringing changes to the scope of international trade in the harmonized system version 2022 and a Nacional level.
He added that the customs instrument also presents the reduction of import duties on soft drinks, from 60 to 50%, footwear, from 30 to 20%, mobile phones (10 to 2%), among others.
In turn, the import technician from the company SociFarma, João Quintas, highlighted the change in the new Customs Tariff as a factor that will make it possible to submit the order and remove the merchandise.
Sistec customs technician Etelvino José praised the reduction of technological products by around 10%, such as telephones, hoping that the tariff can correspond to the expectations of operators and society, facilitating imports.
With the new Tariff, personal use goods with a value above one million kwanzas will be taxed at 16%, while products exceeding the amount equivalent to Kz 1.5 million will be taxed under the general regime.
Personal goods exempt from payment of customs duties cannot be transported by minors under 18 years of age and include only one liter of spirits, two liters of wine, 200 cigarettes or 250 grams of tobacco net weight, among others.
Available data indicate that the agenda has a set of 5,953 tariff lines that were organized into four intervention groups, the first of which refers to agricultural inputs and raw materials for the productive sector.
The second group is intermediate products and equipment goods, depending on their characteristics, with a reduced rate expected, between 2 and 10 percent.
In the third group of everyday consumer goods, the idea is 10 and 30 percent, and, finally, sensitive products that affect health and the environment, 40 and 60 percent are proposed.
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