HS 7321.11 covers Domestic gas stoves & hobs imported into South Africa. Under this six-digit subheading, the customs duty is set at the 8-digit tariff line and ranges from 15% to 30% — the breakdown below (and the scanner) pin down your exact line. The customs value is the FOB (free on board) value of the goods — freight and insurance are excluded. Import VAT is then VAT = ((FOB customs value × 1.10) + customs duty) × 15%. JLog is a Cape Town customs clearance specialist, based in Woodstock, that clears consignments under HS 7321.11 through Cape Town and OR Tambo with direct FedEx and DHL accounts and paired customs work at both ends. Import VAT of 15% is charged on the added-tax value (ATV), and the worked breakdown below shows the landed cost per tariff line. For an exact, classification-checked landed cost, request a JLog quote.
Importing a domestic gas stove? Your container doesn’t sit at Durban for NRCS — it sits because LPGSASA hasn’t issued a Safe Appliance Verification under SANS 1539. NRCS VC 9008 only kicks in if your unit is combination gas/electric.
HS 7321.11 is the customs heading for domestic cooking appliances and plate warmers that burn gas fuel — or both gas and another fuel. In practical terms: freestanding gas stoves, gas hobs, gas cooktops, gas ovens, and combination gas/electric range cookers sold for household use. Within the SA Tariff Book the line splits at the 8-digit level into 7321.11.10 (the gas-fuel split created on the back of the 2017 ITAC investigation) and 7321.11.90 (residual). Industrial and commercial gas ranges — the type you’d see in a restaurant kitchen — usually fall under HS 7321.81, 7321.89 or 8419.81 instead. If your appliance burns wood or coal as its main fuel and gas is only the igniter, you belong in 7321.19, not here.
South Africa imported USD 17.3 million worth of HS 7321.11 across 1.18 million units in 2024, according to UN Comtrade data (reporter ZAF, HS 732111, World Bank WITS extract). The headline for any importer pricing inventory right now is that 2024 imports fell 41% by value year-on-year off the 2023 base of USD 29.6 million — a sharp contraction driven by rand weakness, hospitality destock after the post-2022 reopening, and consumer-side compression.
The top five source countries in 2024 took 95% of the value between them: China at 44%, Turkey at 18%, Italy at 17%, Spain at 14%, and France at 1.5% (UN Comtrade 2024). China is the high-volume / low-unit-value supplier — 1.1 million of the 1.18 million units shipped, but only USD 7.7m of the value. Italy and Spain sit at the premium end (SMEG, Bertazzoni, Teka, Balay) at far higher per-unit price points. Turkey doubled its share between 2022 and 2024, while Italy’s share collapsed from 34% to 17% over the same period. On the export side SA shipped USD 10.7m to its SADC neighbours — Zimbabwe took 43%, Namibia 16%, Zambia 12%, Botswana 10% — mostly locally-assembled Defy and Univa product crossing at Beitbridge, Skilpadshek and Lebombo (UN Comtrade 2024).
The MFN duty position on HS 7321.11 has been moving. ITAC accepted a 2017 application from Defy Appliances (Pty) Ltd to raise the general rate on domestic gas stoves from 15% to 30% ad valorem, alongside the creation of a new 8-digit split at 7321.11.10. Bosch Home Appliances (Pty) Ltd challenged the recommendation in the High Court — judgment cited as Bosch Home Appliances v ITAC, ZAGPPHC/2021/8 — but the challenge did not unwind the increase.
Because the duty line on 7321.11.10 has shifted in recent years and rates can be updated by tariff amendment at any time, verify your live duty rate at the SARS Tariff Determination Search Engine (https://tdn.sars.gov.za/portal/) before every clearance rather than relying on a number cached in a blog post. That is the only authoritative source.
VAT is the standard 15% on the customs ATV (FOB customs value × 1.10 + customs duty + any anti-dumping duty), per section 13(2) of the Value-Added Tax Act 89 of 1991.
Preferential rates matter on this line. EU-origin appliances — Italian, Spanish, French, German — can clear free under the SACU-EU EPA with a valid EUR.1 movement certificate, and SACU-UK EPA mirrors that for UK origin. SADC-origin product clears free under the SADC Trade Protocol with a SADC EUR.1. Chinese and Turkish appliances, which together made up 62% of 2024 import value, carry no preference and pay the MFN rate in full. If your supply is currently Chinese, the preference gap on this line is real money — modelling an EU-origin equivalent is worth doing.
The paperwork for HS 7321.11 splits into the standard customs file and a separate gas safety verification track that surprises first-time importers. The gas track is run by the Liquefied Petroleum Gas Safety Association of Southern Africa (LPGSASA), which is mandated by the Department of Employment and Labour to verify all LPG appliances to SANS 1539 under the Pressure Equipment Regulations 2009 (made under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 85 of 1993). Verification is issued per model number, per gas type, per regulator and per hose — a new SKU or colour variant with a different gas valve triggers a fresh application.
Documents typically required:
LPGSASA fees and turnaround times are not published openly. Contact LPGSASA directly on +27 (0)11 886 9702 or [email protected] for the current fee schedule — do not trust any third-party article that quotes a hard number on this.
The single most common error on this code is assuming the NRCS Letter of Authority under VC 9008 releases your gas stove. It doesn’t. VC 9008, gazetted as Government Gazette 37288, Notice R.75 on 7 February 2014, covers energy-efficiency labelling of eight electrical appliance categories — air-conditioners, AV equipment, dishwashers, electric ovens, fridges and freezers, tumble dryers, washer-dryers, and washing machines. Gas appliances are not on the list. Applying for a VC 9008 LOA on a pure-LPG hob will get you bounced to LPGSASA, and the container will sit at the port while you start the right application from scratch.
The second mistake is misclassification between 7321.11, 7321.19 and 7321.81. A domestic gas geyser belongs in 7321.81 (and on a different SANS / NRCS track — SANS 1539-2 and VC 9006). A wood-burning range with a gas igniter belongs in 7321.19. The principal cooking function decides the heading under GIR 3(b) — get this wrong and you carry both a duty exposure and a compliance exposure.
The third mistake is treating an LPGSASA verification as brand-wide. It isn’t — it is model-specific, sub-component-specific, and tied to the regulator and hose shipped in the box. A SKU refresh from your supplier means a fresh verification, not a tick-box on an existing one.
The fourth is missing the preference angle entirely. If you are importing Italian or Spanish appliances and not lodging a EUR.1, you are paying full MFN duty unnecessarily.
We clear domestic gas appliances under HS 7321.11 routinely. Our customs team checks the 8-digit split against the model, confirms whether the unit is pure-gas or combination gas/electric (which decides whether NRCS VC 8055 / VC 9008 sits in the file alongside the LPGSASA verification), validates the EUR.1 where EU preference is claimed, and prepares the SAD 500 against a verified ATV calculation. On the gas side we coordinate with LPGSASA on the Safe Appliance Verification status of the specific model before the container lands, so the file is complete on arrival rather than chasing paperwork while demurrage runs. Sea and air freight from China, Turkey, Italy and Spain is booked end-to-end, and we handle delivery to your warehouse or showroom from the Cape Town and Durban container depots.
If your gas stove is sitting at the port waiting on a VC 9008 LOA that was never the right document, call us — we’ll get the LPGSASA file started and the container moving.
Get a quote for shipping HS 7321.11: jlog.co.za/get-a-quote
Customs duty: set at the 8-digit tariff line — see the breakdown below · VAT: 15% on the ATV
The customs value is the FOB goods value (freight and insurance excluded).
Duty by 8-digit line (SARS Schedule 1):
| 8-digit line | Description | General duty |
|---|---|---|
| 7321.11.10 | – – Stoves for gas fuel, having two or more plates with gas burners and a gas oven with a | 30% |
| 7321.11.90 | – – Other | 15% |
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Worked example at the 7321.11.90 line (15%) on a R2 000 consignment:
| Customs value (FOB) | R2 000 |
| Customs duty (15%) | R300 |
| ATV = (R2 000 × 1.10) + R300 | R2 500 |
| Import VAT (15% of ATV) | R375 |
| Landed cost before freight | R2 675 |
Duty is charged on the FOB customs value only — freight and insurance are excluded. VAT = ((FOB customs value × 1.10) + customs duty) × 15%. The 10% upliftment does not apply to goods of BLNS/SACU origin (Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Eswatini). Freight, insurance and clearing fees are added to the total on top. Figures are indicative; request a quote for an exact, classification-checked landed cost.
Last updated: 4 July 2026
Speak to JLog’s Cape Town customs team: [email protected] · 021 300 6099
| Item | Rate |
|---|---|
| AGOA | See SARS Schedule 4 for AGOA-specific provisions |
| VAT | 15% |
Last verified 16 Aug 2026 from SARS tariff book.
| Destination | Carrier | From (ZAR / 10kg) | Transit days |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH | FedEx | 2,046.90 | 3 |
| NZ | FedEx | 2,225.08 | 5 |
| BR | FedEx | 2,873.89 | 8 |
| JP | FedEx | 2,225.08 | 5 |
| CA | FedEx | 2,315.03 | 4 |
| IN | FedEx | 2,182.22 | 8 |
| CN | DHL Express | 5,418.29 | 3 |
| SG | FedEx | 2,225.08 | 5 |
| AE | FedEx | 2,182.22 | 5 |
| NL | FedEx | 2,046.90 | 3 |