USTR Greer says he’s open to ‘different treatment’ of South Africa under trade initiative (CNBC)
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on Tuesday said he is open to treating South Africa differently than other African countries if Washington extends a trade initiative with sub-Saharan Africa that expired in September.
Greer told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing that the Trump administration was open to a one-year extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), but viewed South Africa as a unique case and could consider excluding it from the trade initiative if Congress pushed for that outcome.