CUSTOMS
- Appeals: Internal Administrative Appeals (“IAA”; DA51);
- Applications:
- All Licencing and Registration Applications:
- Accreditation;
- Automotive Production Development Programme (APDP);
- Approved exporters;
- Cargo reporter (e.g. carriers, port / rail authorities or operators);
- Deferments scheme;
- Electronic communication with SARS;
- Exporters (local or foreign including continuous transmission commodities (CTC exporter);
- Importers (local or foreign including continuous transmission commodities (CTC importer);
- Special Economic Zone (SEZ) Operators, Designated areas as Customs controlled areas within an SEZ and CCA Enterprise, Section 21A;
- Surety / guarantees (increase / decrease);
- Manufacturers in terms of drawback items 501.00 to 521.00;
- Producers for preferential trade agreements and generalised system of preference (GSP);
- Rebate users in terms of Schedule 3, 4 and 6; and
- Registered Agents in terms of Rule 59A.01.
- Types of clients, premises or facilities required to be licensed:
- Carriers – removers of goods in bond (local or foreign);
- Clearing agents;
- Depots: container and degrouping; and
- Customs warehouses:
- Storage warehouses (OS) including Customs controlled area enterprises (CCA);
- Manufacturing warehouses including Customs controlled area enterprises;
- Special storage warehouses (SOS):
- Storage of local manufactured and /or imported goods for supplies to foreign going aircraft or vessels as stores, spares and equipment;
- Inbound and / or outbound duty and tax free shops; and
- Storage of imported second hand motor vehicles.
- Stockist warehouses; and
- Search abandoned wrecks or for abandoned wrecks (Searcher);
- Compliance;
- Designation of a portion of the SEZ landmass as a Customs controlled area.
- Dispute Resolution: Alternative Dispute Resolution (“ADR”; DA52);
- Drawbacks and Refunds;
- Modernisation;
- New Customs Acts Program (“NCAP”);
- Reviews (already have a SARS Response):
- Compliance;
- Letter Of Intent (“LOI”);
- Letter Of Demand (“LOD”);
- Tariff Determinations (“TDN”);
- Valuation Determinations (“VDN”); and
- Origin Determinations.
- Refunds and Drawbacks;
- Trade Statistics;
- Views (Fresh and new applications):
- Tariff Determinations (“TDN”);
- Valuation Determinations (“VDN”); and
- Origin Determinations.