That gives European exporters an unfair advantage over their US competitors, even though SA benefits from duty-free access to the US
SA’s recent poultry-tariff increases give European exporters an unfair advantage over their US competitors even though the country benefits from duty-free access to the world’s biggest economy, according to US trade representative Robert Lighthizer.
The continent’s most-industrialised economy has duty-free access to the US market under the so-called Generalised System of Preferences , the US’s oldeThe African nation raised duties on frozen bone-in chicken pieces to 62% from 37% for imports from all countries excluding those in the EU, with which it has a free-trade agreement, and the Southern African Development Community. SA also increased tariffs on frozen boneless-chicken cuts to 42% from 12%.
The move drew immediate criticism from the US government, which previously threatened to exclude SA from a preferential trade agreement after a disagreement over the levies in 2015.
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