Highlights of reforms

  • SI 39 of 2009 – Road Access Fee to go
  • SI 8 of 1996 – Export Permit requirement on non-strategic products to go

  • SI 8 of 1996 – need for temporary export permits on equipment and implements for exhibitions to be scrapped
  • SI 350 of 1993 – the Ministry of Agriculture Export Permit on non-strategic products to be removed
  • SI 350 of 1993 – Agricultural Marketing Authority annual registration fees of between US$500 and US$1 000 to be removed
  • SI 94 of 2016 – cost of Phytosanitary Certificates to fall by 50 percent to US$5
  • SI 186 of 2012 – cost of a Certificate of Pharmaceutical Products from US$150 to be reduced
  • SI 154 2001 – Bill of Entry cancellation fee to fall from US$50 to US$10
  • Reduce environmental impact assessment fees
  • RBZ to reduce cost of CD1 Form by 50 percent (done)
  • Cost of CD1 reduced from US$10 to US$2.50 for prepayments and US$5 for payments received within 90 days
  • RBZ introduces online application for CD1 (Computerised Export Payments Exchange Control System)
  • RBZ to charge a fixed amount of penalty for late acquittal of CD1 (rejected by RBZ)
  • Zimra confirms clearing Bill of Entry (BoE) backlog & commits to cancelling all BoE within a maximum of seven days
  • Zimra agrees to reduce penalty from US$400 to US$100
  • Zimra commits to reducing registration time for trade agreements to maximum seven days for processes that don’t involve inspection of manufacturing process
  • Forestry Commission confirms that issuance of both Timber Movement and Export Permit has been decentralised to district offices
  • Reduction of police roadblocks/check points (work in progress)
  • Conduct once-off harmonised cargo inspection by ZRP and Zimra at port of entry or point of loading (work in progress)

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