{"id":49427,"date":"2026-10-29T16:54:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=49427"},"modified":"2026-10-29T16:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:55:00","slug":"minister-to-brief-media-on-sas-agoa-eligibility-review","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/minister-to-brief-media-on-sas-agoa-eligibility-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister to brief media on SA\u2019s AGOA eligibility review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">South Africa\u2019s (SA) Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, Parks Tau, is expected to brief the media <span dir=\"ltr\">this Thursday evening<\/span> at Nedlac in Johannesburg, Gauteng province, following a meeting with stakeholders to discuss the anticipated outcome of the United States\u2019 (US) review of SA\u2019s eligibility for African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) benefits in 2027.<\/div>\n<div id=\"ms-outlook-mobile-body-separator-line\" dir=\"ltr\" data-applydefaultfontstyles=\"true\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The US is expected to announce the outcome of its annual AGOA eligibility review <span dir=\"ltr\">on November 2, 2026<\/span>.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 Tau will provide an update on the discussions and the latest developments at the conclusion of the meeting with Nedlac stakeholders.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014ChannelAfrica\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":42902,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-49427","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The US is expected to announce the outcome of its annual AGOA eligibility review on November 2, 2026.","published_date":"","news_description":"The US is expected to announce the outcome of its annual AGOA eligibility review on November 2, 2026.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49427","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49429,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49427\/revisions\/49429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=49427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}