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Lengthy detentions: That’s just the way it is, says NCC
S&V Protect asked the National Consumer Commission to comment on Treadsafe’s experience, and also whether other containers have been detained. Jabu Mbeje, Divisional Head: Enforcement & Legal Services, at the NCC, sent this response: ...more
SA footwear & accessories trade statistics for January 2024
Pretoria, Gauteng, SA (29 February 2024) – Source: SARS.Including Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho and Namibia (BELN)Cumulative tradeTrade balance R'm (1 349 503 956)Ratio (exports/imports) 0.16Monthly tradeTrade balance R'm (1 349 503 956)Ratio (exports/imports) 0.16ExportsMonth % of total 0.18Cumulative 2023 (R'm) ...more
SA hides, skins, and leather trade statistics for January 2024
Pretoria, Gauteng, SA (29 February 2024) – Source: SARS. https://www.sars.gov.za/wp-content/uploads/Docs/TradeStats/2024/Jan4125/Media-Release-January-2024.pdfIncluding Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho and Namibia (BELN)Cumulative tradeTrade balance R'm (139 726 231)Ratio (exports/imports) 0.67Monthly tradeTrade balance R'm (139&nb ...more
The R-CTFL Masterplan, 5 years on: It’s done nothing for us, most footwear sources claim, but plan’s backers say they ‘need to engage more’
Has the R-CTFL Masterplan, launched 5 years ago, done anything to increase local procurement of footwear and leather goods by the chains that agreed to be part of it?It depends on who you ask, and the answers are very different.In the ‘yes’ corner is Michael Lawrence, who wears 2 hats – as director of the National Clothi ...more
SA footwear & accessories trade statistics for December 2023
Pretoria, Gauteng, SA (31 January 2024) – Source: SARS.Including Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho and Namibia (BELN)Cumulative tradeTrade balance R'm (13 795 684 796)Ratio (exports/imports) 0.24Monthly tradeTrade balance R'm (962 390 982)Ratio (exports/imports) 0.31ExportsMonth % of total 0.26Cumulative 2022 (R'm) 3 ...more
SA hides, skins, and leather trade statistics for December 2023
Pretoria, Gauteng, SA (31 January 2023) – Source: SARS. https://www.sars.gov.za/wp-content/uploads/Docs/TradeStats/2023/8784Nov/Media-Release-November-2023.pdfIncluding Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho and Namibia (BELN)Cumulative tradeTrade balance R'm (649 586 236)Ratio (exports/imports) 0.87Monthly tradeTrade balance R'm (91&nbs ...more
SA footwear & accessories trade statistics for November 2023
Pretoria, Gauteng, SA (29 December 2023) – Source: SARS.Including Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho and Namibia (BELN)Cumulative tradeTrade balance R'm (12 834 783 773)Ratio (exports/imports) 0.23Monthly tradeTrade balance R'm (945 993 044)Ratio (exports/imports) 0.35ExportsMonth % of total 0.27Cumulative 2022 (R'm) 3 ...more
SA hides, skins, and leather trade statistics for November 2023
Pretoria, Gauteng, SA (29 December 2023) – Source: SARS.Including Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho and Namibia (BELN)Cumulative tradeTrade balance R'm (557 867 005)Ratio (exports/imports) 0.88Monthly tradeTrade balance R'm (91 683 982)Ratio (exports/imports) 0.82ExportsMonth % of total 0.23Cumulative 2022 (R'm) 3 794 ...more
SA footwear & accessories trade statistics for September 2023
Pretoria, Gauteng, SA (31 October 2023) – Source: SARS.Including Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho and Namibia (BELN)Cumulative tradeTrade balance R'm (10 870 466 163)Ratio (exports/imports) 0.21Monthly tradeTrade balance R'm (1 384 720 209)Ratio (exports/imports) 0.21ExportsMonth % of total 0.21Cumulative 2022 (R'm) ...more
SA hides, skins, and leather trade statistics for August 2023
Pretoria, Gauteng, SA (29 September 2023) – Source: SARS.Including Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho and Namibia (BELN)Cumulative tradeTrade balance R'm (186 460 568)Ratio (exports/imports) 0.94Monthly tradeTrade balance R'm (54 959 241)Ratio (exports/imports) 0.87ExportsMonth % of total 0.21Cumulative 2022 (R'm) 2 616&nbs ...more
SA footwear & accessories trade statistics for July 2023
Pretoria, Gauteng, SA (31 August 2023) – Source: SARS.Including Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho and Namibia (BELN)Cumulative tradeTrade balance R'm (8 110 145 239)Ratio (exports/imports) 0.21Monthly tradeTrade balance R'm (1 411 294 417)Ratio (exports/imports) 0.19ExportsMonth % of total 0.19Cumulative 2022 (R'm) 1& ...more
SA hides, skins, and leather trade statistics for July 2023
Pretoria, Gauteng, SA (31 August 2023) – Source: SARS.Including Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho and Namibia (BELN)Cumulative tradeTrade balance R'm (131 497 293)Ratio (exports/imports) 0.95Monthly tradeTrade balance R'm (30 425 744)Ratio (exports/imports) 0.92ExportsMonth % of total 0.20Cumulative 2022 (R'm) 2 303 0 ...more
SA footwear & accessories trade statistics for June 2023
Pretoria, Gauteng, SA (31 July 2023) – Source: SARS.Including Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho and Namibia (BELN)Cumulative tradeTrade balance R'm (6 697 973 758)Ratio (exports/imports) 0.22Monthly tradeTrade balance R'm (1 372 239 254)Ratio (exports/imports) 0.16ExportsMonth % of total 0.16Cumulative 2022 (R'm) 1&nb ...more
SA hides, skins, and leather trade statistics for June 2023
Pretoria, Gauteng, SA (31 July 2023) – Source: SARS.Including Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho and Namibia (BELN)Cumulative tradeTrade balance R'm (101 582 416)Ratio (exports/imports) 0.95Monthly tradeTrade balance R'm (41 799 770)Ratio (exports/imports) 0.89ExportsMonth % of total 0.21Cumulative 2022 (R'm) 1 964&nbs ...more
SA footwear & accessories trade statistics for May 2023
Pretoria, Gauteng, SA (30 June 2023) – Source: SARS.Including Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho and Namibia (BELN)Cumulative tradeTrade balance R'm (5 325 826 601)Ratio (exports/imports) 0.23Monthly tradeTrade balance R'm (1 029 940 927)Ratio (exports/imports) 0.24ExportsMonth % of total 0.18Cumulative 2022 (R'm) 1&nb ...more
SA hides, skins, and leather trade statistics for May 2023
Pretoria, Gauteng, SA (30 June 2023) – Source: SARS.Including Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho and Namibia (BELN)Cumulative tradeTrade balance R'm (59 757 351)Ratio (exports/imports) 0.97Monthly tradeTrade balance R'm 13 274 098Ratio (exports/imports) 1.03ExportsMonth % of total 0.22Cumulative 2022 (R'm) 1 609 417 807 Cumulative 2023 (R ...more
SACU members sign agreement to ease imports and exports
Johannesburg, Gauteng, SA (31 May 2023) – Accredited traders in Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa will benefit from lower trade costs and quicker turn-around times for imports and exports, because of a Mutual Recognition Arrangement signed today by the five Member States of the Southern African Customs Union (SAC ...more
SA footwear & accessories trade statistics for April 2023
Pretoria, Gauteng, SA (28 April 2023) – Source: SARS.Including Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho and Namibia (BELN)Cumulative tradeTrade balance R'm (4 295 013 403)Ratio (exports/imports) 0.23Monthly tradeTrade balance R'm (837 219 286)Ratio (exports/imports) 0.30ExportsMonth % of total 0.22Cumulative 2022 (R'm) 1 024 735 317Cumulative 2 ...more
SA hides, skins and leather trade statistics for April 2023
Pretoria, Gauteng, SA (31 May 2023) – Source: SARS.Including Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho and Namibia (BELN)Cumulative tradeTrade balance R'm (73 218 433)Ratio (exports/imports) 0.95Monthly tradeTrade balance R'm 51 852 637Ratio (exports/imports) 1.15ExportsMonth % of total 0.24Cumulative 2022 (R'm) 1 296 194 167Cumulative 2023 (R'm ...more
'Possible counterfeit shoes bust worth R3-million in total'
Press releasePretoria, Gauteng, SA (21 December 2022) – Customs officers of the South African Revenue Service (SARS) have seized possible counterfeit shoes (sneakers and sandals) with an estimated value of R3-milliion this past weekend. The Customs Detector Dog Unit (DDU) at the Lebombo border ...more
SARS, the dtic start distributing clothing and footwear to KZN flood victims living in shelters
Pretoria, Gauteng SA (02 November 2022) – According to a release, the South African Revenue Service (SARS) and the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (the dtic) have gone ahead with their scheme to donate tons of seized clothing, blankets, and footwear to flood victims in KwaZulu Natal. & ...more
Sanitized T 99-19 'offers 99.84% protection against SARS CoV-2 on textiles'
Burgdorf, Switzerland (April 22, 2021) - The nearly 100 % antimicrobial protection of Sanitized T 99-19 against the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been confirmed by independent labs in France (basis: ISO 18184:2019). ...more
Trade stats January-June 2019
Pretoria, Gauteng, SA (July 31, 2019) – The SA Revenue Services released trade statistics for June 2019 which showed that the value of the value of hides, skins & leather trade - imports and exports - has fallen this year by comparison with last year, while the value of footwear & accessories trade - imports and exports - h ...more
SARS plans to implement reference price for safety footwear on March 1
Cape Town (SA) – The SARS footwear task team decided on a minimum reference price for safety footwear imports at its third meeting on February 6, but it is not clear what the price will be. Geraldine Fröhling from SARS' communication department responded to questions from S&V:I know ...more
Undervalued safety footwear focus of SARS-industry discussions but less progress on imports flouting country of origin marking rules
Cape Town, SA - Country of origin marking and reference pricing again dominated the second meeting of the SARS Footwear and Leather Task Team on November 7, which included representatives from SA Revenue Services, SAFLIA, NULAW and SACTWU, and the Foschini Group. The DTI was not represented. There was some progress on reference pricing, a ...more
NULAW ‘fully committed’ to SARS forum
Pretoria (SA) – It is rather regrettable that SAFLIA adopted a stance to withdraw from this important forum. NULAW fully supports the efforts by SARS Customs Fraud unit to combat illegal imports and under invoicing despite its current challenges. NULAW have attempted over the past three years to convince ...more
SACTWU suspends anti-illegal imports protests
Cape Town (SA) – The Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (SACTWU) has suspended its planned series of protests outside SA Revenue Services (SARS) offices “intended to demonstrate our extreme unhappiness with the crisis of illegal imports flooding into South Africa which SARS has stopped effectively polic ...more
SAFLIA: Import forum ‘going nowhere’
The Southern African Footwear & Leather Industries Association (SAFLIA) had already lost confidence in the SARS. Late last year executive director Jirka Vymetal told the CTFL Industry Forum – a body chaired by SARS and intended to discuss illegal/undervalued imports and similar issues – that he would no longer attend its m ...more

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