Obama sets Agoa deadline. SA has until March 15 to comply, faces suspension.
The Agoa announcement comes after South Africa failed to meet the December 31 deadline set by Obama to finalise negotiations around US meat imports.
The Agoa announcement comes after South Africa failed to meet the December 31 deadline set by Obama to finalise negotiations around US meat imports.
Minister Rob Davies told journalists in Pretoria that negotiations between SA and the US over health issues related to meat imports were concluded late on Wednesday.
Using a soccer analogy, South African Trade and Industry minister Rob Davies says the AGOA talks have gone into “extra time” but that the “final whistle” has not been blown.
Investment guru Warren Buffett is headed for his worst year relative to the rest of the US stock market since 2009.
South Africa and China signed deals worth R94 billion during talks between the two countries, President Jacob Zuma said, adding that relations between the two nations were at their “best ever”.
South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry is very concerned by the statement made by the President of the United States that serious consideration is being given to excluding South Africa from several AGOA benefits with an ultimatum of 60 days being given to address the impasse over chicken imports.
The longer-term graph of the gold price is ugly. Down a full third in the last two years, bullion failed to react to any of its normal stimuli from inflationary fears around Quantitative Easing through to geopolitical concerns sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.