Tag: South Africa

  • AGOA Renewed

    Congress rides a two year extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act on the government funding bill, but African exporters warn that short term fixes cannot restore the investment the program was built to attract WASHINGTON, September 9, 2026 America’s flagship trade program with sub-Saharan Africa has been given another lease on life. President…

  • SA Glass Wall

    South Africa slaps definitive anti-dumping duties of up to 129.15 percent on vehicle windscreens from China and Malaysia after finding importers dodged existing tariffs through country hopping and tariff reclassification PRETORIA, September 9, 2026 South Africa has erected one of the steepest trade barriers in its recent history around the automotive glass market, with the…

  • SACU Steel Wall

    Southern African Customs Union imposes provisional anti-dumping duties on Chinese coated flat-rolled steel as Pretoria escalates its defence of a battered domestic mill sector By the International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting PRETORIA, Aug. 31, 2026. Provisional anti-dumping duties on imports of coated flat-rolled steel from China took effect across the Southern African Customs Union on…

  • SA Sugar Wall

    South Africa has raised its sugar import duty by roughly 44 percent after lifting the dollar-based reference price to $785 per ton, erecting a higher tariff wall around the entire Southern African Customs Union in a bid to halt an import surge that has grown more than seventy-fold in four years. JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 1: Importers…

  • SA Chicken Duty

    Pretoria opens a sunset review of anti-dumping duties on European frozen bone-in chicken days before they lapse, with a claimed German dumping margin of 425.64 percent and the whole Southern African Customs Union market at stake JOHANNESBURG, 20 August 2026 South Africa’s trade regulator has launched a sunset review of anti-dumping duties on frozen bone-in…

  • AGOA Lifeline

    Africa welcomes the US Senate’s two-year extension of duty-free trade, but industry leaders warn that Section 232 and Section 301 tariffs have hollowed out the program’s biggest benefits WASHINGTON, Aug. 19, 2026 – Relief is rippling across sub-Saharan Africa this week as governments and exporters digest the US Senate’s decision to extend the African Growth…

  • SA Chicken Duty

    South Africa races the clock with a sunset review of decade-old anti-dumping duties on European bone-in chicken, days before the tariffs were set to lapse JOHANNESBURG, August 19, 2026 South Africa’s trade regulator has launched a last-minute sunset review of the anti-dumping duties that have shielded the Southern African Customs Union’s poultry industry from European…

  • SACU Wheat Cut

    Southern Africa’s customs union has scrapped its wheat import duty entirely, dropping the tariff from R153.70 per tonne to zero after world prices surged, and the region’s grain producers say the system that delivered the cut is broken. PRETORIA, August 9, 2026. The Southern African Customs Union has eliminated import duties on wheat and wheaten…

  • Wheat Duty Axed

    Southern Africa’s customs union has scrapped its wheat import tariff entirely, dropping the duty to zero across five countries and reshaping the cost calculus for one of the region’s most import-dependent food staples. JOHANNESBURG, August 8, 2026. The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has cut the import duty on wheat to zero, publishing an amendment…

  • SACU Steel Line

    Southern Africa’s customs union opens a sweeping safeguard investigation into cold-rolled flat steel, positioning the five-nation bloc as the newest trade defence flashpoint in a world awash with surplus metal and diverted cargoes. Peacock Tariff Consulting | Trade News Desk PRETORIA, Aug. 3, 2026. The Southern African Customs Union has opened one of the most…