{"id":292509,"date":"2026-02-15T12:14:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T12:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/292509\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T12:14:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T12:14:30","slug":"south-africa-moves-closer-to-duty-free-access-to-china-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/292509\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa moves closer to duty-free access to China market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pretoria signed an economic partnership agreement with Beijing, a step toward securing zero tariffs on South African exports to the Chinese market. <\/p>\n<p>The two countries agreed to expand bilateral trade and investment in areas including mining, agriculture, renewable energy, and technology. A follow-up agreement, due by the end of March, \u201cwill see China provide duty free access to South African exported products,\u201d South Africa\u2019s government said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The deal comes amid ongoing political tensions between the continent\u2019s biggest economy and Washington: The Trump administration imposed a 30% tariff on South African exports to the US in August, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/south-africas-trade-minister-signs-economic-partnership-agreement-china-visit-2026-02-06\/\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">highest rate in sub-Saharan Africa<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Beijing has emphasized its role in upholding a global trading system that was upended by Washington\u2019s new tariffs last year. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202602\/1354958.shtml\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Against the backdrop of rampant unilateralism and protectionism<\/a>, China will continue to strengthen communication and coordination with South Africa within multilateral frameworks such as the WTO and BRICS,\u201d its commerce minister said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pretoria signed an economic partnership agreement with Beijing, a step toward securing zero tariffs on South African exports&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":["post-292509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}