Announcement
20 Dec 2019
In December 2019, the government of South Africa designated industrial lead acid batteries as a product under the local content requirements for public procurement.
Source
Number of interventions
1
1 certainly harmful
0 likely harmful
0 liberalising
Implementation date
20 Dec 2019
Revocation date:
No revocation date
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