NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE SET TO INCREASE: INPUT REQUIRED

The effect of the toxic combination of

IMPORT DUTIES
and
AMSA’s INABILITY TO SUPPLY

More business responses

• We have had no choice but to import steel, even if the price after duties is higher. If there were no duties, prices would be more competitive than AMSA’s pricing. We are starting to believe that the answer is for all downstream steel consumers to import out of principle rather than support this monopoly. That way we will ensure that in the long term we can get back to a fair market price as determined by the international market. Maybe that way we will just have a clean cut instead of the tearing of our business’s limbs.

• After a great deal of marketing and promoting our business in Africa and after receipt of good orders thereafter, we are forced to disappoint these hard-won customers due to the unacceptable situation left by AMSA and their Government cronies, where we cannot get steel or meet the inflated cost of imported materials.

• Very much!

        Difficulty in getting the required steel; having to buy plate instead of standard sizes and            cut to size.

        Prices have increased by as much as 25%.

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Regards

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