{"id":64051,"date":"2025-08-13T13:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T13:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/64051\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T13:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T13:29:13","slug":"south-africa-to-offer-us-generous-trade-deal-to-avert-30-tariff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/64051\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa to offer US \u2018generous\u2019 trade deal to avert 30% tariff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PRETORIA: South Africa will present a \u201cbroad, generous and ambitious\u201d new trade proposal to the United States <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/world\/us-expects-us50-billion-in-monthly-tariff-revenue-commerce-chief-says-5283576\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in a bid to avoid 30 per cent tariffs<\/a> on some exports, government ministers said on Tuesday (Aug 12).<\/p>\n<p>Washington imposed the duties on Friday, the highest in sub-Saharan Africa, despite Pretoria\u2019s efforts to negotiate an arrangement that could avert major job losses.<\/p>\n<p>Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen said details of the offer would be made public later but confirmed that measures to increase imports of US poultry, blueberries and pork had been finalised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the document is eventually made public, I think you would see it as a very broad, generous and ambitious offer to the United States on trade,\u201d Steenhuisen told a press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have warned the tariffs could cost around 30,000 jobs in an economy already struggling with 33.2 per cent unemployment, according to official figures released on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal is to demonstrate that South African exports do not pose a threat to US industries and that our trade relationship is, in fact, complementary,\u201d Trade Minister Parks Tau said.<\/p>\n<p>The US is South Africa\u2019s third-largest trading partner after the European Union and China, but South African exports make up only 0.25 per cent of total US imports, Tau noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PRETORIA: South Africa will present a \u201cbroad, generous and ambitious\u201d new trade proposal to the United States in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,141,1294,4247,635,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-64051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-donald-trump","tag-economy","tag-south-africa","tag-trade-war","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}