SA’s hard-pressed motorists will pay more for imported Chinese tyres for the next five years after the government imposed new anti-dumping duties on what it said were unfairly traded imports of passenger, truck and bus tyres from that country.

The International Trade Administration Commission (Itac) and the Minister of Trade, Industry & Competition, Ebrahim Patel, imposed duties of between 7.18% to 43.6% until July 2028. Itac, SA’s trade regulation body, found that tyres from China were being dumped into the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), causing material injury to the industry. Fairly traded imports from other countries will continue unaffected, it said...

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