| Industry/sector/sub-sector | Minimum threshold for local content |
|---|---|
| Office Furniture School Furniture Base and Mattress | 85% 100% 90% |
| Solar Water Heater Components | 70% |
| Electrical and telecom cables | 90% |
| Valves products and actuators | 70% |
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How do you calculate local content?
The average local content percentage of tender is calculated by dividing total local content (C24) by the total tender value net of exempted imported content (C22).
What is a local content declaration?
DECLARATION CERTIFICATE FOR LOCAL PRODUCTION AND CONTENT FOR DESIGNATED SECTORS. This Standard Bidding Document (SBD) must form part of all bids invited. It contains general information and serves as a declaration form for local content (local production and local content are used interchangeably).
What does local content policy mean?
Local content requirements impact the global economy
The fastest growing of these measures are local content requirements (LCRs), which are policies imposed by governments that require firms to use domestically-manufactured goods or domestically-supplied services in order to operate in an economy.
What is minimum local content?
Minimum local content: The local content’ requirement to categorize a supplier as Class-l local supplier’ is minimum 50%. For ‘Class-Il local supplier’, the ‘local content’ requirement is minimum 20%.