A 30 percent tariff will apply on South Africa’s exports to the US from Friday, 8 August 2025, posing a major risk to thousands of local jobs and dimming economic prospects. Help Americans remove Trump, EFF saysThe EFF described Trump as an “unstable and illiterate imperialist whose misuse of economic power threatens both the capitalist and socialist world order.”“His reckless and irrational tariff regime is rooted in a misguided understanding of global trade and is designed to impose American dominance by destabilising weaker economies,” it added. The EFF’s Statement on the Response by Government to United States Tariffs-Donald Trump is an unstable and illiterate imperialist whose misuse of economic power threatens both the capitalist and socialist world order. The government will also intensify efforts to diversify export markets, they added. It called for a “National Economic Security Policy” and a “progressive foreign policy” that prioritises trade with China, Brazil, Russia and countries in the Global South, “not through begging but through mutually beneficial cooperation.”Get the latest news from Current Affairs ZA via our WhatsApp channel here.