Tag: AfCFTA

Egypt is a member of the GAFTA, a free trade area that consists of 14 members spanning North Africa and the Middle East. While it is not an African regional economic community, Egy...

Mauritania, not a member state of any free trade area on the continent, stands to benefit greatly from the AfCFTA. Mauritania's Association Agreement with the Economic Community of...

Algeria is a member of the GAFTA, a free trade area that consists of 14 members spanning North Africa and the Middle East. While it is not an African regional economic community, A...

South Africa puts biggest trade partner in its crosshairs over R20 billion and 100,000 jobs (BusinessTech) South Africa said it has taken a preliminary step toward filing a compla...

South Africa well placed to benefit from huge green hydrogen outlook, attendees hear (Engineering News) Green hydrogen has a massive potential future and South Africa is very well...

TPT outlines actions to support 15% growth in citrus exports during 2024 season (Engineering News) Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) reports that it has recruited 200 additional cargo...

BLSA calls for immediate reworking of IRP, describing assumptions as ‘spurious’ (Engineering News) Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA), whose members include the largest d...

The AfCFTA for Mauritania: Stakeholder Webinar tralac is organising a series of stakeholder webinars for three North African countries – Egypt, Algeria and Mauritania. This...

The AfCFTA for Algeria: Stakeholder Webinar tralac is organising a series of stakeholder webinars for three North African countries – Egypt, Algeria and Mauritania. This is...

The AfCFTA for Egypt: Stakeholder Webinar tralac is organising a series of stakeholder webinars for three North African countries – Egypt, Algeria and Mauritania. This is t...

Transport infrastructure foundation for economic development in Africa, says Mashatile (SAnews) Deputy President Paul Mashatile has described transport infrastructure as the corne...

SADC boosts support towards Namibia in developing a CBM National Strategy (SADC) The Southern African Development Community (SADC), in collaboration with the Namibia Revenue Agenc...

SA, Ghana explore ways to expand trade and investment (SAnews) President Cyril Ramaphosa has emphasised the significance of expanding trade and investment between South Africa and...

Patel meets with EV manufacturers, investors during visit to China (Engineering News) Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Ebrahim Patel and a high-level delegation recently c...

South Africa: Trade statistics for January 2024 (South African Revenue Service) Today, the South African Revenue Service (SARS) releases trade statistics for January 2024, recordi...

Fifty-four African Union (AU) member states have signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement (only Eritrea has not[1]) and 47 have ratified it.[2] At present,...

The negotiations to adopt the legal instruments of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) were launched in 2015. Four years later the AfCFTA founding Agreement and its Pr...

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is anchored in a comprehensive set of legal instruments. They have been negotiated, adopted, and ratified to ensure that the foundi...

Practically all African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) State Parties are members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the AfCFTA must therefore be notified and function ...

African economic integration has a long history. Both the African Union (AU) and its predecessor, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was Africa’s first post-independe...