SA’s recent poultry-tariff increases give European exporters an unfair advantage over their US competitors even though the country benefits from duty-free access to the world’s biggest economy, according to US trade representative Robert Lighthizer.

“That strikes me as completely crazy,” he said in a House ways and means committee hearing on trade policy on Wednesday...

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