Minister Parks Tau warns against retaliatory tariffs without clarity from the US [SOUND]

# Trade, Industry and Competition minister Parks Tau says retaliatory tariffs against the US would be ill-conceived without a full understanding of how it arrived at its decision to impose a 31-percent tariff on South Africa. The minister, alongside International Relations minister Ronald Lamola, held a joint media briefing on the government’s strategic approach to the new US tariffs. Tau says recent US trade policies have affected the multilateral system: