Sa Exploring New Trade Partners In Asia And Beyond: Tau

Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Parks Tau says South Africa has been looking for other trade partners including in Asia and other parts of the world.

He says the country had already planned to diversify its trade relations with other countries before the announcement by the US administration imposing the 31 tariffs on imports from the United States of America.

Donald Trump has imposed tariffs on many countries globally with some given a 50 increase such as Lesotho.

Tau says South Africa will engage the US administration on how the tariffs were calculated.

We have long started the process of diversifying our trade partners including in citrus. We had our own clarity dispute with the EU in regard to citrus because of the restrictions we believe are unrepeatable by the EU. We have continued to engage the US on our citrus and we have looked at alternative markets for our citrus growers. There are different markets we continue to work on.