The Customs Tariff version 2022, effective from April 3 of this year, 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 (AGT), Ângelo Silva, there was a reduction in all products that have to do with agricultural inputs, industrial equipment, roads and automobiles, to facilitate national production continue to grow.
When speaking at the workshop on the new Customs Tariff, held in Luanda, the technician highlighted that the document has a set of five thousand and 953 tariff lines, bringing changes in the scope of international trade in the harmonized system version 2022 and at national 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 Soci-Farma, 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’s customs technician, Etelvino José, praised the reduction in technological products by around 10%, such as telephones, hoping that the tariff can meet 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 1.5 million kwanzas will be taxed under the general regime. Personal goods exempt from paying customs duties cannot be transported by minors under 18 years of age and only include one liter of spirits, two liters of wine, 200 cigarettes or 250 grams of net tobacco, among others.
Available data indicate that the Tariff 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, consumer goods, the rate is 10 and 30 percent, and, finally, sensitive products that have to do with health and the environment, 40 and 60 percent are proposed.