# The Motor Industry Staff Association says South Africa acted too late to secure new trade deals with the US as the African Growth and Opportunity Act expired yesterday. They warn that this failure will worsen job losses in the retail motor industry, where retrenchments are already rising. The association’s spokesperson Sonja Carstens says efforts by president Cyril Ramaphosa and Trade, Industry and Competition minister Parks Tau to save the deal, failed:
MISA says SA ‘missed the bus’ on AGOA renewal [SOUND]
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