South Africa looks to enhance global cooperation in face of sweeping US tariffs

South African economists are urging enhanced global cooperation, stressing the urgent need to counter American trade policies that have severely disrupted exports and could exacerbate job losses in an already struggling economy. 

Barely two weeks in to the new US tariff regime, South Africa’s economic outlook has taken a hit. Facing tariffs of 30 percent – the highest rate in sub-Saharan Africa – from its second-largest trade partner,…