Clothing items no longer covered by traveller’s rebate

The traveller’s rebate now provides for the duty free importation of travellers’ used personal effects, as well as other goods of a value for duty purposes not exceeding US$300.
As a result of these changes, the list of other goods, other than the traveller’s used personal effects, will not include items of clothing whether new or second hand.
Therefore, all clothes – other than the traveller’s used clothing – even if they are within the US$300 duty free allowance, will NOT qualify under the rebate.
Duty shall, therefore, be payable at a rate of 40 percent plus US$3,00 per kilogramme. This is with effect from 1st January 2012.
Please note that clothing items are an addition to the list of other items that were removed from the duty free allowance as per the Mid-Term Fiscal Policy Review, with effect from 1st August 2011. The other items that are currently excluded from the traveller’s rebate are shoes, refrigerators, stoves and blankets.
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) urges its valued clients to take note of these new requirements and obligations under the traveller’s rebate to avoid any inconveniences at ports of entry into Zimbabwe.
For further information, please contact your nearest Zimra office.
l Article submitted by Zimra’s Legal and Corporate Services Division. Their contact details are as follows:

Zimbabwe Revenue Authority
Legal and Corporate Services Division
6th Floor, ZB Centre
Corner First Street/Kwame Nkrumah Avenue
P.O. Box 4360
Harare
Fax: 04 – 774087
Tel (Head Office): 04 – 758891/5; 790813; 790814; 781345; 751624; 752731; 798879
E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]