PUBLISHER: XA Global Trade Advisors (www.xagta.com)
25% of South African beef exports went to China in the last year (R290 million) , making China our largest export destination for beef. All of this is at risk if safeguard duties are imposed.
This is an emergency action, so we should be prepared for provisional duties fairly quickly. You need to be very careful of what you ship from now on as you could find yourself facing duties when you containers land in China.