When you import or export goods over the value of R3 000. Individuals, businesses and trusts can all register. When you register, you will be issued with a customs code/client number.
All individuals/businesses and trusts wishing to move goods into or out of the country are required by law to be in possession of a license in order to do so. A license number (custom code) is required to complete the bill of entry/exit in order for customs to release any cargo coming in or out. This same custom code is required by the bank to either make or receive payments for goods bought or sold.
Licenses (or custom codes) do not need to be renewed, they do not expire and are not subject to annual fees. Once you have been issued with your license it will remain active for as long as it is used.
This license enables you to import or export general, unrestricted merchandise. A few categories of merchandise have restrictions from the government and require a special permit to when importing or exporting. Examples of these categories are goods of plant or animal origin, second hand goods, tyres and tyre casing, vehicles, nutritional supplements etcetera.
It is an internationally standardized system of names and numbers for classifying traded products. In other words every item that can be imported/exported is given a number (HS/tariff code) to identify it. In South Africa and most other companies customs uses the HS/tariff code to determine the duty tax that should be paid.
Unless your specific merchandise is a restricted by the government, there is no limit to how much you can bring in on one license.
We can organize all the above registrations for you. Please
click here for a summary of each of the above trade agreements.
Yes you can. You need 2 documents to import any nutritional supplements, an import license/code and a Medical Controll Council (MCC) Registration. With these documents importing health supplements follows the same process as importing any other product. For more information on MCC registration fill out the form on our website by clicking
HERE and we will gladly assist you.
MCC stands for Medical Controll Council. Any medicine or nutritional supplement that is imported and/or sold in South Africa needs to be registered under the importer’s/seller’s name at the MCC. Without MCC registration customs will not allow these items into the country.
Yes it is. In terms of
Government Notice R814 dated 31 July 2009, SARS is now legally mandated to enforce the use of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) for the submission of certain cargo and goods declarations and reports. It was, however, decided to enforce the electronic submission of goods declarations in respect of cross-border movements between the Republic and the neighbouring countries with effect from 1 April 2010.
Electronic Road Freight Manifests (RFM’s) must be submitted in respect of all commercial cargo carried by a road haulier on a truck that is to cross a South African land border post.
All road hauliers who are to cross a South African land border post with commercial cargo must register as road hauliers for ACM cargo reporting purposes and must submit their RFM’s electronically to the ACM system.
The “reporting party” is the person
who actually transmits the electronic RFM to the ACM system.
In the case of a South African road haulier the reporting party can be –
- the road haulier himself (if he has his own computer submitting system or that of a service provider); or
- an agent (e.g. another South African road haulier or a licensed clearing agent) appointed by the road haulier to submit his manifests to the ACM system on his behalf.
The ACM implementation for road freight is scheduled to commence on 18 May 2012 and envisaged to be activated at the following offices:
- Kopfontein
- Ramatlabama
- Nerston
- Vioolsdrift
- Nakop
- Quachasneck
- Caledonspoort
- Mananga/Mahamba
- Jeppes Reef
- Van Rooyenshek
- Golela
For the initial phase of the ACM implementation a hybrid solution will be employed –
- Road hauliers who have not submitted an electronic manifest to ACM will be processed in terms of the manual Service Manager process as is currently the case. SARS will compare clearance records against the goods listed on the paper manifest and, where any discrepancy exists, the necessary corrective measures will need to be performed by means of Vouchers of Correction (VOC’s).
- Road hauliers who have submitted an electronic manifest to ACM will be processed on the basis of the information contained in the electronic manifest. Provided that the information on the manifest is factually correct at arrival of the truck at the border, discrepancies on bills of entry appearing on that manifest regarding incorrect truck registration details will not require VOC’s from traders as a record of the correct information will be carried by SARS against the appropriate clearances.
