AGOA has finally been signed off and yes, South Africa does benefit, but South Africa’s treatment has certainly not been the same as the other beneficiaries.  The USA is clearly uncomfortable about the South African anti-dumping duties on bone-in chicken from the USA, as well as South Africa indicating to the WTO that it may wish to re-negotiate its commitments under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).  (The possible re-nogotiating of GATS arose out of SA’s stated intention to look at limiting foreign ownership in private security firms.  If such a limitation were implemented, it would put SA in breach of our existing committments under GATS). The result is that SA’s continued participation under AGOA will be re-evaluated after 30 days.