{"id":24046,"date":"2026-02-21T07:47:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-agricultural-sector-will-benefit-if-us-tariffs-scrapped-analyst\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:48","slug":"sas-agricultural-sector-will-benefit-if-us-tariffs-scrapped-analyst","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-agricultural-sector-will-benefit-if-us-tariffs-scrapped-analyst\/","title":{"rendered":"SA\u2019s agricultural sector will benefit if US tariffs scrapped: Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agricultural Economist, Thabile Nkunjana, says if the United States (US) tariffs ruling is implemented, it will certainly bring some relief to the country\u2019s agricultural sector.<\/p>\n<p>The US Supreme Court has ruled that many of US President Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs, which he imposed last year, are illegal.<\/p>\n<p>The tariffs include 30% on South Africa (SA).<\/p>\n<p>Nkunjana says while the extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) may have provided some relief to the agricultural sector, many products still face high tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reality is that for SA, this will bring some serious relief, especially given the data itself. Because we saw that our exports to the US, they plummeted significantly. So, therefore, those tariffs were really beginning to put on some pressure and that we are even expecting even more for 2026. But now this kind of changes that,\u201d says Nkunjana.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":24047,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,44],"class_list":["post-24046","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The tariffs include 30% on South Africa (SA).","published_date":null,"news_description":"The tariffs include 30% on South Africa (SA).","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26849,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24046\/revisions\/26849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=24046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}