SA excluded from US tariff relief

thestaggy said:
And so it begins.
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Yip. You raise your back against the big boys and flirt vehemently with Palestine and China then you cannot refrain from been classified as part off the Anti West fraternity.
Chinese expansion in Africa now unavoidably entrenched.
 
thechamp said:
The sooner the better.
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I hope you learn to speak Chinese well. Would be helpfull once you take up you position as a puppet servant.

Just remember. Zuma or Malema will probably BEE your chief of staff then.:ROFL:
 
There you go.. now those who constantly tell me that "SA will never fail because 'Murica, etc.." can go STFU.
Yes kiddies, you read right, the US doesn't give one toss about SA. Its been like that for quite a while.
 
Does South Africa even still produce the amount of steel it did in the 80s? Do we even export steel to the US?
 
Pitbull said:
Does South Africa even still produce the amount of steel it did in the 80s? Do we even export steel to the US?
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I am also interested in this info. I think we have a smelter somewhere in the country....but I think we mostly export the ore to China etc and then we actually buy it back from them as finished steel aluminium. I could be very wrong though.
 
How much will this actually effect South Africa ? I think as it stands now we trade more with China and Germany than with the states.
 
Ockie said:
I am also interested in this info. I think we have a smelter somewhere in the country....but I think we mostly export the ore to China etc and then we actually buy it back from them as finished steel aluminium. I could be very wrong though.
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I know we still have the Sishen mine in the Northern Cape Now owned by Anglo American, and Mithal in Van der Bijl. But it's no where near what Iscor was back in the 70s/80s
 
Pitbull said:
Does South Africa even still produce the amount of steel it did in the 80s? Do we even export steel to the US?
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Don't think so, though the US is one of our biggest importer of our other products.
 
mmmig said:
How much will this actually effect South Africa ? I think as it stands now we trade more with China and Germany than with the states.
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Pitbull said:
Does South Africa even still produce the amount of steel it did in the 80s? Do we even export steel to the US?
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In 2017 we produced 6.3mil tonnes, 330k tonnes was exported to the US. Apparently 7500 jobs are on the line.
 
ponder said:
In 2017 we produced 6.3mil tonnes, 330k tonnes was exported to the US. Apparently 7500 jobs are on the line.
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When I remembered that Sishen is now owned by Aglo American I figured there might be some.

But how does that work though? American Company, will surely not be penalized will it?

Edit: Guess I was wrong there too. It's not an American company :o
 
ponder said:
In 2017 we produced 6.3mil tonnes, 330k tonnes was exported to the US. Apparently 7500 jobs are on the line.
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Is that Ore or finished products? I think the tariffs are on the finished product, not the ore is it not? They want to protect their producers of steel etc, and without Ore they cant produce?
 
An interesting take on this situation

But did Trump also take into account, when deciding not to include South Africa among the exemptions, the sort of negative perceptions of South Africa which had just been expressed by his UN ambassador Nikki Haley?
On Thursday her office released a statement saying that the US State Department had just released its annual UN Voting Practices Report as required by Congress for the last 34 years.
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“The ten countries with the lowest voting coincidence with the United States were Zimbabwe, Burundi, Iran, Syria, Venezuela, North Korea, Turkmenistan, Cuba, Bolivia, and South Africa.”
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https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/art...s-to-high-steel-and-aluminium-import-tariffs/
 
Ockie said:
Is that Ore or finished products? I think the tariffs are on the finished product, not the ore is it not? They want to protect their producers of steel etc, and without Ore they cant produce?
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Steel & aluminium are processed products, the tarifs dont include ore as far as im aware.
 
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