One year into an historical free trade agreement which significantly increased access to the world's largest market, South Africa has fallen far short of exploiting its full new quotas of duty-free agricultural exports to the European Union.
Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies promised on Tuesday to tackle problems thaf have prevented agricultural exporters from meeting quotas negotiated by South Africa as part of the "SADC-EPA" - the Economic Partnership Agreement between the EU and six southern African Development Community countries - which went into force a year ago.
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