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South Africa announced a new wheat import tariff of R379.34 per ton on September 8, 2017.

Post estimates that South African pork imports will increase marginally by about 2.5 percent annually, reaching about 32,000 tons cwe in 2017 and 33,000 tons cwe in 2018.

South Africa should return to being a net exporter of corn in the 2017/18 MY and 2016/17 MY on higher production after South Africa had to import 2.2 million tons of corn in the 2015/16 MY....

Post forecasts that raisin production will increase by one percent to 62,500 MT in the 2017/18 MY, from 62,000 MT in the 2016/17 MY, based on the increase in area planted....

Zimbabwe’s corn crop for the 2017/18 MY is estimated at around 2.2 million tons, up more than 300 percent from the 2016/17 MY’s corn crop of 512,000 tons.

The outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in South Africa led to Southern African countries, including Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe suspending....

The 2016/17 MY production of citrus is estimated to increase as the country recovers from drought in the main growing regions.

On April 10, 2017, the International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa announced that it has initiated a sunset review of the anti-dumping duties on frozen bone-in chicken from the U.S.

On April 7, 2017, the South African (SA) Ministry of Health published a government notice (No. 40772) inviting the public to comment on the amendments....

On May 18, 2017, the South African Ministry of Health invited further comments or inputs on the Draft Regulations relating to maximum levels of metals in foodstuffs.

The deciduous fruit industry in South Africa showed some resilience by defying the drought conditions.

Post forecasts that the South African sugar cane crop will increase by three percent to 15.5 MMT in the 2017/18 MY, based on higher cane yields as the industry recovers....