There is a frightening article in the Sunday Times which explains that “[a] department of co-operative governance & traditional affairs (Cogta) skills audit revealed in 2023 that more than 300 KwaZulu-Natal councillors were illiterate, raising questions about how they managed multimillion-rand budgets […]
Itac is proposing to reduce the Price Preference System (PPS) discount on scrap steel from 30% to 25%., but…. always the but…. keep reading… PPS provides a raw material subsidy to scrap consumers such as mini-mills by forcing factories, mines, construction companies […]
Hall Longmore brought an application for anti-dumping duties on pipes made of iron or steel, of an external diameter exceeding 406.4mm, cleared under tariff code 7305.19, from Mozambique. Longitudinally submerged arc welded and longitudinally welded pipes are specifically excluded from the investigation. […]
Not satisfied with the ‘sweet smell of victory’, President Trump is now also flogging bibles. There are seven versions of the Good Book, ranging in price from $59.99 for the basic version to the $1 000 “Signature Edition”, containing the big man’s […]
Last week we published our seventh import duty investigation report, this one with a 1950s horror movie theme. The tariff zombies, investigations which are never completed and yet never die, now dominate. This is depressing because there is no reason for such tardiness […]
The difference between a rock in the ground and an iPhone in your pocket is human capital. No one has control over where the rocks are distributed but everyone has control of the human capital in their country. In the economic sense, […]
There is a steel importer who will see their duty liability increase by R119 million on the day Itac imposes their proposed steel tariffs. I don’t know who this company is, but our own Liberation Day will deal a hefty blow to […]
This is a grim way to start your Friday, but SA ended up with a 30% “Liberation Day” tariff for all goods except: precious metals and critical minerals (gold, platinum, etc), which attract no duty. those already covered by the section 232 […]
ITAC just published a note on LinkedIn stating “On 28 July 2025, ITAC hosted officials from the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China (MOFCOM)’s Trade Remedies and Investigation Bureau (TRIB), along with representatives from the Chinese Embassy. This was […]
President Trump just launched a fragrance called Trump Victory 45 – 47, part of the “Fight Fight Fight Collection”. The lid of the $249 bottle is a (obviously) gold statuette of Trump, tummy flat, shoulders back, looking like the Oscar for Best […]