Industry body Grain SA strongly rejects the final outcome of the wheat tariff amendment investigation, following confirmation in the Government Gazette that the dollar-based reference price (DBRP) for wheat will remain unchanged at $279/t and that no automatic trigger mechanism will be implemented.
The application, submitted by Grain SA and the South African Cereals and Oilseeds Trade Association (Sacota), requested an increase in the wheat reference price from $279/t to $289/t, as well as a more efficient mechanism to address delays between tariff triggers and implementation.
None of the core requests made by the industry were approved, the organisation laments.
Grain SA regards this decision as a severe blow to wheat producers and to the long-term sustainability of South Africa’s domestic wheat industry.
“We are not satisfied with this outcome, and we do not accept the reasoning on which it is based. The decision fails to reflect the reality on wheat farms across South Africa.
