The Daily Maverick reports that South African Minister of Trade and Industry Ebrahim Patel and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer will soon meet to discuss a dispute over South Africa's proposed Copyright Amendments Bill. The U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has launched a formal review of South Africa's trade benefits through the General System of Preferences (GSP), to investigate whether the Amendments violate the GSP's eligibility criterion that beneficiary countries provide" provide adequate and effective protection of intellectual property rights." It is doing so at the request of the International Intellectual Property Alliance, a US-based trade group representing publishers.