{"id":1933,"date":"2026-09-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.chatscopeai.com\/south-africa-withdraws-directive-on-unregulated-goods-import-safety\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T08:17:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:17:02","slug":"south-africa-withdraws-directive-on-unregulated-goods-import-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chatscopeai.com\/news\/south-africa-withdraws-directive-on-unregulated-goods-import-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa Withdraws Directive on Unregulated Goods Import Safety Certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph hsn-lede\">South Africa withdrew a ministerial directive requiring safety certificates for unregulated goods imported from China, effective September 22, 2026.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"hsn-fig hsn-fig--solid hsn-fig--v2\" data-at=\"lede\">\n  <div class=\"hsn-fig__table\">\n    <h4>The directive, before and after withdrawal<\/h4>\n    <div class=\"pcrstb-wrap\"><table>\n      <thead>\n        <tr><th>Question<\/th><th>Directive of 20 March 2026<\/th><th>After withdrawal<\/th><\/tr>\n      <\/thead>\n      <tbody>\n        <tr><th>Status<\/th><td>Gazetted, in force<\/td><td>Formally withdrawn<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><th>Coverage<\/th><td>Wide range of unregulated goods<\/td><td>No safety-certificate mandate<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><th>Source of goods<\/th><td>Imports from China<\/td><td>All origins, unchanged rules<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><th>Trigger for reversal<\/th><td>\u2014<\/td><td>Industry associations and WTO feedback<\/td><\/tr>\n      <\/tbody>\n    <\/table><\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (dtic) formally withdrew a ministerial directive originally gazetted on March 20, 2026, which would have mandated safety compliance certificates for a wide range of unregulated goods from China. The decision follows extensive feedback and concerns raised by industry associations and the World Trade Organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa withdrew a ministerial directive requiring safety certificates for unregulated goods imported from China, effective September 22, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_regnews_id":"35577","_hsn_citations":"[]","_hsn_no_sources":"1","_hsn_content_hash":"cebe2d1192f1b15715fb7c067ea549bead6a5cf6:034a412f735cfb06679b5fbbf6d3913f24a18353","_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":"unregulated goods","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,18],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-1933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-trade-regulation","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chatscopeai.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chatscopeai.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chatscopeai.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chatscopeai.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chatscopeai.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chatscopeai.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1935,"href":"https:\/\/chatscopeai.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions\/1935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chatscopeai.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chatscopeai.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chatscopeai.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chatscopeai.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}