Customs law increases to 30% for 14 billion DH of import products - Media24

Customs law increases to 30% for 14 billion DH of import products - Media24

The 2020 finance law has established the increase in ordinary law import law from 25% to 30%.The government has justified this increase by "concern for improving the revenue collected, encouraging local production and reducing the trade balance deficit, in an international context marked by the rise of protectionism".

Three ambitious objectives.But will this measure really have a significant impact on revenue and trade balance?

You should know that a large number of products and countries benefit from pricing and commercial agreements establishing preferential regimes with Morocco (European Union, United States, Agadir, Turkey Agreement, etc.).Over the past 25 years, Morocco has signed more than 56 free trade agreements (ALE).

And even within the framework of the common law regime, not all products are taxed at the same rate.There are four daily life:

- 2.5% for raw materials, inputs and equipment of equipment.

-10% or 17.5% for half-products depending on their degree of work.

- 30% for finished consumption products.

In any case, through this rate recovery, all finished products imported from countries not having a pricing agreement with Morocco will now be taxed at 30%.

The range of products concerned is very wide.It goes from certain cheeses imported to tires, including rubber works, floor coverings and foot carpets, metal, wood or plastic furniture, box springs and bedding, lighting devices, lighting devices,tobacco or house clothes and textiles.

Le droit de douane passe à 30% pour 14 milliards de DH de produits d'importation - Medias24

According to the data we have, more than 14 mmdh of imports (2019) of finished products subject to the right of 25% will drop to 30%.

Imports from China represent more than half of this envelope with 7.8 MMDH.Other countries are concerned like Turkey, India, Japan and Switzerland, France and Germany even if they are part of the EU.

Taxable imports of products subject to the DC rate of 25% (excluding DI franchise and agreements) year 2019

Pays d’origineValeur en MDH
CHINE7.792
SUISSE831
INDE772
TURQUIE690
BANGLADESH405
VIET-NAM330
ALLEMAGNE298
FRANCE229
JAPON217
COREE REP188
Autres pays2.365
Total14.118

The presence of France and Germany on the list is explained according to our source of the customs administration by the fact that "certain products imported from these countries do not satisfy the rules of origin to benefit from the exemptionunder the agreement.For Switzerland, for example, these are mainly cigarettes ”.

The increase in the rate will also impact certain protective measures.This is the case of safeguarding measures applied to textile imports from Turkey.

Indeed, since January 2018, imports of Turkish textiles have been subject to an additional ad-valorem right equivalent to 90% of the import law which is applicable to them within the framework of the common law regime, namely 25%.

Which resulted in import rights of 22.5%.The 30% increase therefore automatically is automatically the right for products that were 22.5%.

Will the increase in this right really produce the expected result?A source to customs tells us that "the increase in rights is an increase in imports which can only be in favor of the competitiveness of local production".

These are also more revenues for the State, adds our source."With static reasoning, the impact would be around 600 MDH".This is what is the impact for the state budget.

But beyond the revenues for the boxes of the State, the objective is to slow down imports and relieve trade balance.

"In 2019, we had 14 mmdh of imports of finished products.By taking into account the trend recorded, this amount was going to rise to 16 or 17 MMDH in 2020.If we manage to brake this increase, it makes between 2 to 3 mmdh less in the trade balance which could be redirected to the local market, ”concludes our source.

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