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SCRAP METAL EXPORTS: PRICE PREFERENCE SYSTEM EFFECTIVENESS UNDER REVIEW
- 27 September 2024
- Trade, Industry & Competition
- SA Legal Academy
The International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (ITAC) is reviewing its ferrous and non-ferrous waste and scrap export control guidelines (as amended several times) with the aim of determining the overall effectiveness and efficiency of their underpinning price preference system – and how it might be improved. This is noting that scrap metal exports have been regulated since 2013 in an effort to ensure ‘an affordable domestic supply of quality scrap metal … to the domestic processing industry, to safeguard employment and … maintain and increase industrial capacity’.
A Government Gazette notice announcing the ITAC review and calling for input by 25 October 2024 makes no reference to the temporary suspension of these policy measures in June 2022 – since extended incrementally at six-monthly intervals, most recently to December 2023. That month, a notice was gazetted calling for public comment on a possible further extension, although it is not clear what eventually transpired.
- ITAC notice
- June 2023 policy measures suspension extension notice
- SA Legal Academy report on December 2023 proposals for a further extension
Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch
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