US-Africa Trade Pact Looks Bleak But Talks Due by July, Tau Says

Containers on a dock at the Port of Cape Town.

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African nations and the US will hold talks in June or July on a trade pact that provides duty-free access to the world’s largest economy, South African Trade Minister Parks Tau said, adding it will be hard to salvage the arrangement that tariffs superseded last week.