Tag: AGOA - tralac trade law centre

AGOA Forum 2019: Reflections and new developments

12 Sep 19 Blog

The 2019 AGOA Forum took place early August in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, under the banner of “AGOA and the Future: Developing a new trade paradigm to guide US-Africa trade and i...

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21 Aug 19 News

2019 Indonesia-Africa Infrastructure Dialogue: updates Inka aims to secure Rp 7 trillion worth of order contracts from African, Asian countries. State-owned train manufacturin...

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08 Aug 19 News

The 39th Ordinary Summit of the Heads of State and Government of SADC, and preceding meetings, starts tomorrow in Dar es Salaam, ending on 18 August Funding the AfCFTA Secretariat...

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07 Aug 19 News

Featured tweet, @Yadeyemi: The AU is developing a continental trade facilitation strategy with a concrete implementation plan involving ICT, logistics, SMEs, NTBs, etc, the AU told...

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05 Aug 19 News

The Ministerial Session of the 2019 AGOA Forum began to today in Abidjan: selected updates The theme of this year’s Forum is AGOA and the Future: Developing a new trade para...

Trade Facilitation: towards a practical agenda for southern Africa – Cape Town, 25 July 2019

05 Aug 19 Event

On 25 July, tralac and USAID hosted a workshop on trade facilitation in southern Africa. Participants were from civil society, government and the private sector. Discussions were ...

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02 Aug 19 News

Diarise: tralac’s Certificate Course on International Trade Law and Policy for Africa’s Development (starting 23 September): Applications close on 9 August East Afric...

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24 Jul 19 News

Special issue on US-SSA trade and investment The public hearing, US Trade and Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: recent trends and new developments, takes place today, 24 July, in ...

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03 Jul 19 News

Diarise: Next year’s 2020 Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development will take place in Addis Ababa, 18-24 March, on the theme The future of Af...

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21 Jun 19 News

Today, in Rome: The Third AU-EU Agriculture Ministerial Conference is held on the theme; Promoting Sustainable Regional Agricultural Value Chains. Downloads: Concep...

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23 May 19 News

Small African economies in a more uncertain global trade environment: the potential impact of post-AGOA scenarios for Lesotho (World Bank) This paper provides a forward-look...

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22 May 19 News

AfCFTA negotiations update, from @AUTradeIndustry: The 15th meeting of the AfCFTA Negotiating Forum kicked off Monday at the African Union, Addis Ababa. The meeting will cons...

Trade Policy Review: East African Community (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda)

21 Mar 19 News

The third joint Trade Policy Review of the East African Community (EAC) takes place on 20 and 22 March, 2019 to provide clarification from the EAC members on its trade policies and...

Workshop on current and emerging trade issues for Kenya – Nairobi, 20 March 2019

20 Mar 19 Event

While in Nairobi for the 2019 Annual Conference, tralac and the Export Promotion Council co-hosted a workshop on 20 March 2019 in Nairobi on current and emerging trade issues for K...

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05 Mar 19 News

Featured tweet, @CelestinMonga: Sierra Leone ($500 income per capita) imports onions from the Netherlands, 7,000 kilometers away. Why? It takes more than one month to import fresh,...

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20 Feb 19 News

The continued relevance of S&DT in favour of Developing Members to promote development and ensure inclusiveness: a communication from China, India, South Africa and Venezuela c...

Africa trade and technology

15 Jan 19 News

Introduction It is perceived that economic nationalism has slowed the meteoric rise of global trade. Since the Uruguay Round created the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, tr...

Southern African Customs Union (SACU)’s trade and tariff profile

14 Dec 18 Blog

The members of SACU are Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, Namibia and South Africa. SACU’s objectives include to, inter alia, facilitate cross-border movement of goods between me...

Press briefing on US policy in Africa with Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of African Affairs

07 Dec 18 News

Remarks by Tibor P. Nagy, Jr. via teleconference in Nairobi, Kenya, 6 December 2018 MODERATOR: Good afternoon to everyone from the U.S. Department of State’s Africa Regiona...

African Union Commission and the United States commit to advance efforts towards stability and development in Africa

30 Nov 18 News

The African Union (AU) Commission and the United States of America convened the 6th annual High-Level Dialogue at the African Union Headquarters, Addis Ababa on 29 November 2018. ...