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Customs and Excise (Precious Metals) (Export Duty) (Suspension) Order, 2020 (Statutory Instrument 40 of 2020)

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Customs and Excise Act (Chapter 322)
Government Gazette
This is the latest version of this legislation commenced on 27 Apr 2020.

Zambia

Customs and Excise Act

Customs and Excise (Precious Metals) (Export Duty) (Suspension) Order, 2020

Statutory Instrument 40 of 2020

  • Published in Government Gazette on 27 April 2020

  • Assented to on 27 April 2020

  • Commenced on 30 March 2020

  • [This is the version of this document from 27 April 2020.]


IN EXERCISE of the powers contained in section 89 of the Customs and Excise Act, the following Order is made:


1. Title, commencement and revocation

(1)This Order may be cited as the Customs and Excise (Precious Metals) (Export Duty) (Suspension) Order, 2020 and is deemed to have come into operation on 30th March, 2020.

2. Suspension of export duty

The export duty payable on precious metals specified in the Schedule is suspended to free.


Schedule

(Regulation 2)


HS Code Description of Goods
71.01 Pearls, natural or cultured, whether or not worked or graded but not strung, mounted or set; pearls, natural or cultured, temporarily strung for convenience of transport.
71.02 Diamonds, whether or not worked, but not mounted or set.
71.04 Synthetic or reconstructed precious or semiprecious stones, whether or not worked or graded but not strung, mounted or set; ungraded synthetic or reconstructed precious or semi-precious stones temporarily strung for convenience of transport.
71.05 Dust and powder of natural or synthetic precious or semiprecious stones
71.06 Silver (including silver plated with gold or platinum), unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form.
71.07 Base metals clad with silver, not further worked than semi-manufactured.
71.08 Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form.
71.09 Base metals or silver, clad with gold, not further worked than semi-manufactured.
71.10 Platinum, unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form.
71.11 Base metals, silver or gold, clad with platinum, not further worked than semi-manufactured.
71.12 Waste and scrap ofprecious metal or ofmetal clad with precious metal; other waste and scrap containing precious metal or precious metal compounds, of a kind used principally for the recovery of precious metals.

Dr B. K. E. Ng’anduMinister of Finance