BDLive writes that the long-awaited establishment of a committee to look into the effect of import tariffs on the steel industry might be too little too late, with customers of ArcelorMittal SA (AMSA) haemorrhaging jobs at an increasing rate.  

The committee has just been announced by Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel.  National Employers’ Association (Neasa) CEO Gerhard Papenfus, who has been appointed to the committee, said the 10% import tariffs on key steel imports provided some protection for AMSA, but the downstream industry had no protection, and had lost tens of thousands of jobs.  The Democratic Alliance’s Dean Macpherson described the establishment of the committee as being too little, too late.

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