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Chinese tyre imports hit with hefty duties, raising prices for motorists

Government clamps down on cheap imports with surcharges of between 7.18% and 43.6% until July 2028

01 August 2023 - 18:39 By Denis Droppa

SA’s hard-pressed motorists will pay more for imported Chinese tyres for the next five years after the government imposed new anti-dumping duties on what it said were unfairly traded imports of passenger, truck and bus tyres from that country...

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