FF Plus appeals to President not to sign the Copyright Amendment Bill
17 January 2020
The FF Plus is seriously calling on President Cyril Ramaphosa not to sign the Copyright Amendment Bill.
The FF Plus is of the opinion that trade agreements between South Africa and countries in Africa and elsewhere abroad could be seriously jeopardised due to the damaging and rash nature of the Bill, just as with other destructive policy directions of the ANC.
America's trade representative in South Africa, Robert Emmet Lighthizer, just announced that South Africa's status of eligibility for preferential trade will be reviewed in Washington on the 30th of January 2020 due to concerns about how the country deals with the protection of intellectual property.
America uses these preferential trade programmes to help developing countries to gain easier access into its market by making provision for the duty-free import of certain goods.