The U.S. is looking to expand agricultural exports into South Africa. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Krysta Harden is visiting South Africa for that purpose in November 2015. He claims to be excited to travel to Africa and is counting on "a new group of U.S. agricultural leaders to further explore market opportunities, especially for small, minority and women-owned businesses."
In addition, the U.S. recently negotiated to lift "anti-dumping" duties that had been in effect for 15 years, imposed as a result of a former U.S. outbreak of avian influenza. The U.S. requested the removal of this import barrier, which affected the sale of bone-in chicken in South Africa, at the time of renewing the African Growth and Opportunity Act ("AGOA"), an agreement that allows African countries to export to the U.S. certain products duty-free and that will continue until 2025. Despite the fact that South Africa has not yet enacted rules for a tariff-rate quota system, it has vowed to allow 65,000 metric tons of U.S. poultry imports a year.
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