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CHROME ORE: INPUT SOUGHT ON EXPORT CONTROL PROPOSALS
- 03 October 2025
- Trade, Industry & Competition
- SA Legal Academy
On behalf of the International Trade Administration Commission, the Department of Trade, Industry & Competition has gazetted a notice calling for input by 31 October 2025 on chrome ore export control proposals intended to contribute towards a raft of interventions to:
- ‘stabilise and revitalise’ the local chrome value chain, and
- ‘support’ government’s broader:
- industrialisation goals
- minerals beneficiation strategy, and
- value-add initiatives close to mineral extraction locations.
This follows a 25 June 2025 Cabinet decision communicated the following day in a media statement among other things referring to:
- ‘tariff realignment’
- a ‘permitting’ system
- ‘a chrome ore export tax’, and
- an ‘incentives framework’ with ‘regulations’ to ‘expand’ smelters in special economic zones.
The gazetted notice itself refers to a ‘permit processing system for chrome ore’, and ‘other requirements’ on which no further detail is provided.
- Government Gazette notice
- Cabinet media statement
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