This service grants national industrial facilities and factories an exemption from applicable customs taxes (duties) on their imports of machinery, equipment, spare parts, raw material and semi-manufactured material required for production. This aims at encouraging and supporting national industry to compete in local and global markets in a way that is consistent with the regional and international agreements, especially the WTO Agreement.
There are seven types of customs exemptions, namely:
- Diplomatic Exemption
- Military Exemption
- Industrial Exemption
- Personal Exemption
- Exemption of the imports of philanthropic societies
- Exemption of returned goods
- Exemption of the imports of People of Determination