A drive to reindustrialise the country may see a change in the f low of freight.“Thanks in large measure to the Auto Master Plan, we sold more cars to the rest of the world last year than ever before, providing jobs for young people in Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.“The Clothing and Textiles Master Plan, which was signed last year, involves commitments by retailers to buy goods locally, by manufacturers to invest and support transformation, and by labour to develop bargaining structures that promote agile manufacturing”.What importers are already seeing is government acting “vigorously against illegal imports, seizing almost 400 containers with under-invoiced products in the last quarter of 2019”.Chicken imports are also likely to be affected.“We will, within two weeks, set a new poultry import tariff adjustment to support the local industry.”
