South Africa - Customs and other import duties

Customs and other import duties (current LCU)

The value for Customs and other import duties (current LCU) in South Africa was 54,395,980,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 47 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 55,021,130,000 in 2018 and a minimum value of 138,000,000 in 1972.

Definition: Customs and other import duties are all levies collected on goods that are entering the country or services delivered by nonresidents to residents. They include levies imposed for revenue or protection purposes and determined on a specific or ad valorem basis as long as they are restricted to imported goods or services.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

Year Value
1972 138,000,000
1973 175,000,000
1974 236,000,000
1975 295,000,000
1976 283,000,000
1977 559,000,000
1978 496,000,000
1979 476,000,000
1980 433,000,000
1981 686,000,000
1982 886,000,000
1983 670,000,000
1984 620,000,000
1985 902,000,000
1986 1,370,000,000
1987 1,616,000,000
1988 3,102,000,000
1989 6,268,000,000
1990 2,775,000,000
1991 3,195,000,000
1992 2,065,000,000
1993 3,554,000,000
1994 818,000,000
1995 5,655,000,000
1996 6,200,000,000
1997 4,988,500,000
1998 5,253,700,000
1999 5,610,100,000
2000 6,856,000,000
2001 7,663,000,000
2002 8,191,000,000
2003 8,063,000,000
2004 12,589,000,000
2005 18,230,000,000
2006 23,132,000,000
2007 25,798,000,000
2008 22,119,000,000
2009 18,967,000,000
2010 26,246,070,000
2011 33,722,290,000
2012 37,931,970,000
2013 43,230,690,000
2014 39,547,960,000
2015 45,134,930,000
2016 44,716,860,000
2017 49,151,740,000
2018 55,021,130,000
2019 54,395,980,000

Customs and other import duties (% of tax revenue)

Customs and other import duties (% of tax revenue) in South Africa was 4.01 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 47 years was 9.54 in 1989, while its lowest value was 0.77 in 1994.

Definition: Customs and other import duties are all levies collected on goods that are entering the country or services delivered by nonresidents to residents. They include levies imposed for revenue or protection purposes and determined on a specific or ad valorem basis as long as they are restricted to imported goods or services.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

See also:

Year Value
1972 4.87
1973 4.84
1974 5.41
1975 5.71
1976 4.88
1977 8.29
1978 6.37
1979 5.08
1980 3.49
1981 4.92
1982 5.24
1983 3.48
1984 2.59
1985 3.02
1986 4.06
1987 4.13
1988 6.30
1989 9.54
1990 4.02
1991 4.08
1992 2.61
1993 3.72
1994 0.77
1995 4.47
1996 4.21
1997 3.01
1998 2.83
1999 2.79
2000 3.10
2001 3.03
2002 2.89
2003 2.64
2004 3.51
2005 4.32
2006 4.61
2007 4.43
2008 3.48
2009 3.10
2010 3.81
2011 4.43
2012 4.56
2013 4.69
2014 3.92
2015 4.08
2016 3.78
2017 4.03
2018 4.26
2019 4.01

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance