{"id":216570,"date":"2025-12-13T22:12:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T20:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-namra-fees-bleeding-order-with-me-dry\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T22:12:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T20:12:51","slug":"namibia-namra-fees-bleeding-order-with-me-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-namra-fees-bleeding-order-with-me-dry\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Namra Fees Bleeding &#8216;Order With Me&#8217; Dry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\"><em>Small business importers report they are losing business due to the Namibia Revenue Agency&#8217;s increasingly unpredictable and high customs charges.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Known as &#8216;order with me&#8217; agents, they say the fees charged sometimes are the same as or exceed the value of their orders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Additionally, their products are confiscated and burnt without clear explanations, they claim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The importers aired their concerns during an engagement with Namibia Revenue Agency (Namra) commissioner Sam Shivute in Windhoek on&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512120632.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small business importers report they are losing business due to the Namibia Revenue Agency&#8217;s increasingly unpredictable and high customs charges. Known as &#8216;order with me&#8217; agents, they say the fees charged sometimes are the same as or exceed the value of their orders. Additionally, their products are confiscated and burnt without clear explanations, they claim. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":216571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,1444,11709,11432,4706,724,38326,257,7576,254],"class_list":["post-216570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bleeding","tag-dry","tag-fees","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namra","tag-news","tag-order","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}