South Africa Asked U.S. to ‘Back Away’ From Punitive Tariffs
- Nation is collateral damage in someone else’s war, Davies says
- Further tariffs on vehicles, parts would hurt industry: Davies
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South Africa has asked the U.S. to not implement punitive tariffs that could make its economy collateral damage in the trade war with China, according to the nation’s Trade Minister Rob Davies.
“We are asking the U.S. to back away and not to subject us to this,” said Davies in an interview in Bloomberg’s Johannesburg office on Tuesday. “We are collateral damage in a war you are fighting with someone else, in a war not of our making.”