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Zimbabwe lifts import ban to address shortage of basic goods

October 29, 2018
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Zimbabwe’s government on Tuesday said it had lifted a ban on the import of basic goods and foodstuffs to stem the prevailing shortages fueled by panic-buying from consumers in recent weeks.

After winning a disputed election in July, President Emmerson Mnangagwa pledged to end long-running currency shortages and revive a struggling economy but his government’s early interventions have caused public alarm.

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The introduction of a new tax on electronic transactions in an economy desperately short of hard cash caused fuel shortages this month and prompted shoppers to stockpile goods, leaving shops empty of basics like cooking oil and sugar.

“As a way forward, Cabinet resolved  to allow both companies and individuals with offshore funds and free funds to import specified basic commodities currently in short supply, pending the return to normalcy”.

Zimbabwe introduced a ban on the imports of many basic goods in 2016 as it sought to help its manufacturing recover after more than a decade of contraction.

“Cabinet noted with concern that the basic commodities continued to be in short supply,” Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa said in a statement.

“As a way forward, Cabinet resolved to allow both companies and individuals with offshore funds and free funds to import specified basic commodities currently in short supply, pending the return to normalcy.”

Currency crisis

Zimbabwe adopted the use of foreign currencies, mostly the U.S. dollar, in 2009 after its own Zimbabwe dollar was destroyed by hyperinflation.

But a huge trade deficit has led to a shortage of physical U.S. dollar bills in the economy, to which the authorities responded by issuing a “bond note” quasi-currency pegged at parity to the greenback in November 2016.

The bond notes trade at a significant discount to the U.S. dollar on the black market and have failed to address the shortage of banknotes.

On Oct. 1, the central bank directed banks to separate foreign currency accounts from the bond notes and their associated electronic deposits.

This tacit admission that the bond notes were not at par with the U.S dollar accelerated its collapse on the black market.

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