COSATU urges government to ramp up engagements with the US over 30-percent tariffs hike [SOUND]

# Cosatu says it is urgent that the government ramp up engagements with the US over the 30-percent tariff hikes imposed on South Africans exports. The federation says negotiations must ensure that tariffs can be lowered and a mutually beneficial new trade agreement put in place. Cosatu’s spokesperson, Zanele Sabela says the tariffs will have far-reaching consequences for exporters and on the broader ailing South African economy: