Vuvuzelas?
Posted on 03/05/2025 1:04:15 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
South Africa is preparing a new trade offer to present to President Trump, hoping to appeal to his transactional approach to foreign policy and ease boiling tensions with Washington, a spokesman for South Africa’s president said this week.
The spokesman, Vincent Magwenya, said in an interview that South African officials are anticipating Mr. Trump will call for an end to the African Growth and Opportunity Act, a decades-old trade agreement that has been an economic boon to the 32 African nations that it includes.
The act allows billions of dollars worth of goods — from produce to cars — from sub-Saharan Africa to enter the United States without duties. It is scheduled to expire this year but could be reauthorized by Congress.
Although officials in South Africa hope the program will be renewed, they plan to offer the United States a bilateral deal that would increase trade in sectors such as energy, Mr. Magwenya said. A future without the African Growth and Opportunity Act would represent a significant shift for the continent’s largest economy. South Africa has for years lobbied against threats to expel it from the program on the grounds that its economy had grown too advanced.
South African officials argue that the African Growth and Opportunity Act has kept businesses confident in the South African economy, helped maintain stability across the continent and fostered a healthy relationship with the United States.
Relations between South Africa and the United States were upended last month when Mr. Trump accused the country of using a new land law to discriminate against white citizens. President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa fired back, accusing Mr. Trump of spreading misinformation.
The land bill allows the South African government to take privately owned land without providing compensation, though supporters say any such seizures would be...
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Zimbabwe redux.
Here is what my trade deal offer would be, ZERO, lower your tariffs on US made goods imported into your country to ZERO and the US would do the same on your country’s good into the US.
“Here is what my trade deal offer would be, ZERO, lower your tariffs on US made goods imported into your country to ZERO and the US would do the same on your country’s good into the US.”
sounds reasonable enough ...
What can South Africa send us other than illegal elephant tusks and rhino horns?
SA has nothing to offer.
WRONG!!!
White South African hard working grateful entrepreneurs.
English or Afrikaner, the kind of immigrants we need.
Stop the white farmer genocide.
Tinkering with the marginal tax rate isn’t the solution. The black invaders killing the Native White South Africans is the problem.
White South African hard working grateful entrepreneurs.
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Now that is a true observation. Products not so much.
“… Opportunity Act, a decades-old trade agreement that has been an economic boon to the 32 African nations that it includes.”
Some how I missed that economic boom. Did it happen when the Chinese moved in or when the muslims started their mass murder campaign?
Grant asylum and the expedited citizenship for South Africans that have been subjected to discrimination and harm.
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