Davies puts Harare on notice over exports impasse
TRADE and Industry Minister Rob Davies has given Zimbabwe a three-week grace period in which SA’s neighbour has to reopen its doors to South African exporters.This development follows a long anticipated meeting between Davies and his Zimbabwean counterpart, Mike Bimha.The parties have to resolve the impasse before a Southern African Development Community (SADC) meeting of trade ministers in Botswana later in August."On August 24, there should be an agreement reached where there are a series of surcharges and additional tariff increases that were applicable to the export interests of SA," said Davies.Although Davies availed himself to journalists for a briefing in Pretoria on Thursday afternoon, Bimha skipped the address.But Bimha did provide a list of the factors that drove Zimbabwe to impose a blanket import ban on South African goods, one of which was that his country’s economy and some of its industries were under strain because of imports from SA and other SADC countries.Davies ...
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