Mozambique will exempt fully electric vehicles from customs duties after parliament approved amendments to the country’s tariff law, scrapping a 20 percent levy in a move aimed at promoting cleaner transport.
The Assembly of the Republic gave final approval to the revised Customs Tariff, allowing vehicles powered exclusively by electric motors to be imported at a zero-duty rate.
Finance Minister Carla Loveira told lawmakers the measure forms part of the country’s energy transition strategy and is intended to encourage the uptake of environmentally sustainable technologies.
She said the changes align with Mozambique’s National Development Strategy (ENDE) 2025–2044, which seeks to strengthen external trade policy and support the internationalisation of domestic products and companies.
As part of the overhaul, the government will also update its customs classification system to the 2022 Harmonised System approved by the World Customs Organization. Mozambique currently applies the 2017 nomenclature.
The revised law also incorporates tariff dismantling schedules under international trade agreements to which Mozambique is a signatory, including economic partnership agreements with the European Union and the United Kingdom, as well as the African Continental Free Trade Area.
Under the planned dismantling, customs duties will be gradually reduced, reaching between 1.7 and 17 percent by 2026 and falling to zero by 2033, Loveira said, adding that the changes do not introduce tax increases but are aimed at aligning the country with regional and international commitments.
