Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

F62: Merchandise handling or storing fees 

Date when the measure came into force

01 April 2015 

Publication where the measure is specified

Statutory Instruments no.54 of 2000, the customs and excise Act Cap 322 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Regulations Sl. S4 of 2000. Updated in April 2015: The customs and excise (General) regulations, 2000 

Country/Region applying the measure

Zambia 

Coded list of objectives

X: For purposes n.e.s. 

Description of the measure

127. (1) Subject to regulation 47, any goods which are conveyed in transit through Zambia shall be so removed by a licensed customs carrier.
(2)Except with the permission from the Commissioner-General, any carrier carrying transit goods through Zambia shall be required to exit from Zambia within five days from the date of entry; Provided that rail carriers shall be required to exit from Zambia within thirty days from the date of entry.
(3)There shall be charged, levied, collected and paid in respect of any carrier that remain in Zambia in contravention of sub-regulation (2) a fee at the rate set out in the First Schedule.
(4)Any carrier of goods in transit that remain in Zambia beyond ten days after the authorized period shall be liable to seizure of the goods (As amended by SI No 97 of2012)
128.(1) The customs warehouse declared pursuant to subsection (1) of section one hundred and ninety-five of the Act shall be for the storage of detained goods until the requirements of the Act have been satisfied.
(2) Where any goods are lodged in a customs warehouse in terms of sub-regulation (1), the Government shall in no case be liable in respect of any loss or diminution of or accident to any goods; except that the officer shall issue a receipt for the goods for the purpose of showing that a certain number of packages have been received into the customs warehouse.
(3)The Storage fees to be paid on goods placed in the customs warehouse shall be as set out in the First Schedule.
(4)Storage fees shall be charged from the date on which goods are placed in a customs warehouse up to and including the date of final delivery thereof, or the date of sale, as the case may be: Provided that the Commissioner-General may, having regard to the circumstances pertaining to the detention, remit the rent
payable on any consignment of goods which have been placed in a customs warehouse.
(5)If an order for the removal of any goods from a customs warehouse has been given by the Commissioner-General and the person to whom such order has been granted does not, within such period as may be specified, comply with it, such goods may, notwithstanding any other provisions of the Act, at the discretion of the Commissioner-General, be dealt with as if they were goods in respect of which entry had not been made in terms of section thirty-threeof the Act.
128A. The storage fees payable on goods that remain in customs premises beyond forty-eight hours after their release from customs control under the provisions of subsection (5) of section thirty-fourof the Act shall be as set out in the First Schedule 

Reference of the measure

Part XIV para 127 & 128 

Measure also domestic

No 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Imports on transit 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

All importing countries