USA plans to suspend trade benefits not good for SA economy

The South Africa’s export market is under threat as the USA moves to suspend trade benefits of all SA agricultural products. The action follows a US review of South Africa’s status as a full beneficiary of a preferential trade agreement under the African Growth and Opportunity Act, or AGOA, which eliminates import levies on more than 7,000 products ranging from textiles to manufactured items

To look at the implications of this, we have Geordin (pronounced Jordan) Hill Lewis