US revokes WTO subsidy preferences for South Africa & some other countries

The Trump administration is changing a key exemption to America’s trade-remedy laws to make it easier to penalise about two dozen so-called developing countries including China, India and South Africa.

The US narrowed its internal list of developing and least-developed countries in order to reduce the threshold for triggering a US investigation into whether nations are harming US industries with unfairly subsidised exports, according to a US Trade Representative notice.
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The South African Pork Producers’ Organisation (SAPPO) coordinates industry interventions and collaboratively manages risks in the value chain to enable the sustainability and profitability of pork producers in South Africa.