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SCRAP METAL: TEMPORARY EXPORT BAN, PREFERENTIAL PRICING SUSPENSION TO BE EXTENDED?
- 16 May 2023
- Trade, Industry & Competition
- SA Legal Academy
Input is sought by 29 May 2023 on a possible nine-month extension to a policy directive issued in November 2022, prohibiting ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metal exports, and suspending related preferential pricing arrangements until 30 May 2023.
The move was prompted by feedback on the impact of regulatory amendments intended to curb copper and ferrous metal theft, thus reducing concomitant infrastructure damage. Apparently, the incidents of both have been reduced but nevertheless remain unacceptably high.
Details of the types of scrap and waste metal likely to be affected are provided in a draft policy directive published as part of the proposal, in a separate Government Gazette notice.
Both documents gazetted on 16 May 2023 but backdated to the previous day.
Government Gazette notices (one being a draft)
Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch