Tag: AGOA

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Executive Board Concludes 2023 Article IV Consultation with Kingdom of Eswatini (ZAWYA) Eswatini has shown resilience to multiple economic shocks...

Joint Efforts Are Critical in Pulling SA Out of Its Economic Challenges (the dtic) “As much as government and big business industry players have a role to play in contributing t...

Competition Commission steel industry inquiry to look into loss of competitiveness (Engineering News) The Competition Commission of South Africa has gazetted the draft terms of re...

Maritime Chamber wants to contribute more to South Africa’s economic recovery (Engineering News) Industry organisation the Maritime Business Chamber has written an open let...

South Africa: Renewables industrialisation plan to be aligned to expected surge in private projects The newly appointed facilitator of the South African Renewable Energy Masterpla...

Bilateral trade between the United States (U.S.) and Kenya commenced through the enactment of the African Opportunity and Growth Act (AGOA) as Title I of The Trade and Development ...

Local news South African economy slowly recovering post-pandemic – TIPS (Engineering News) The latest ‘Real Economy Bulletin’ (REB), published by economic research ins...

Local news UK trade and investment with South Africa is growing, in both directions (Engineering News) The UK Department of International Trade (DIT) on Wednesday released its la...

Local news SA Government concerned about GDP figures (SAnews) Minister in the Presidency, Mondli Gungubele, has expressed concern at the results of the Gross Domestic Product for...

When in February 2020 the then US President, Donald Trump, and President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya announced that the two countries would start formal trade talks aimed at concluding...

Local Logistics Performance Index: Nigeria ranks lowest In West Africa — Experts (Tribune Online) The Managing Director/CEO, Analyst Data Service Ltd, Dr Afolabi Olowo-okere, h...

South African producers and exporters of lemon juice (and no doubt exporters of citrus fruit) received an unwelcome surprise early January 2022 that a California-based company prod...

South African producers and exporters of lemon juice (and no doubt exporters of citrus fruit) received an unwelcome surprise early January 2022 that a California-based company prod...

On December 30, 2021, the United States International Trade Commission (USITC or I.T.C.) received a request from Ventura Coastal LLC, an American firm, to undertake an investigatio...

AGOA remains the cornerstone of Africa-U.S. preferential market access, and the legislation accounts for virtually all of Sub-Saharan Africa’s non-MFN exports to the U.S. Through...

Country-related news SARS Customs scales up digital transformation (SAnews) The South African Revenue Service (SARS) Customs division will scale up digital transformation and inc...

Country news South Africa’s Covid-19 Response Gets a $750 Million Boost (World Bank) The World Bank Group Board of Executive Directors today approved South Africa’s request f...

National Boosting industrialisation and trade competitiveness in SA requires an alternative to state-owned enterprises (SOEs) (IOL) THE Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement 2021 a...

National trade and trade-related news Sugar Masterplan starting to uplift industry – DTIC (Engineering News) The South African sugarcane industry has experienced a sharp declin...

National trade and trade-related news Going digital during pandemic signals a positive change for SMMEs – SBI (Eyewitness News) While thousands of small businesses crumbled und...