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20 Feb 19 NewsThe 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...
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The continued relevance of S&DT in favour of Developing Members to promote development and ensure inclusiveness
20 Feb 19 NewsCommunication from China, India, South Africa and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, for discussion at the Formal Meeting of the WTO General Council on 28 February 2019
Th...
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15 Feb 19 NewsAfrican Union Department of Rural Economy and Agriculture: Continental strategy for Geographical Indications in Africa 2018-2023
The protection of GIs could give African coun...
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14 Feb 19 NewsNegotiating African trade policy:
Event reminders
Expert meeting on Non-Tariff Barriers (NTB) Reporting, Monitoring and Elimination under the AfCFTA (concluded today in Nairo...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection: AU Summit review
12 Feb 19 NewsA guide to the AU Summit:
Outcomes, commentaries, side-events, country postings
South Africa deposited its AfCFTA instrument of ratification, as did Mauritania and Republic o...
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International push to improve food safety
12 Feb 19 NewsInternational Food Safety Conference opens with call for greater global cooperation
Greater international cooperation is needed to prevent unsafe food from causing ill health and ...
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11 Feb 19 News32nd Ordinary Session of the African Union: opening address by President Kagame
The future of the global economy is digital. At this Summit, we will consider guidelines for a comm...
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05 Feb 19 NewsAfrican Group statement submitted to the informal WTO Ministerial held during WEF 2019 (WTO)
This statement is circulated by H.E. Minister Rob Davies to the informal WTO Ministeri...
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Using Intra-African Trade Scorecards to identify opportunities for increasing agricultural trade
05 Feb 19 NewsAcross the continent, African governments are taking steps to make agricultural trade freer. In June 2014, heads of state of African Union member countries issued a bold commitment...
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EAC still on the right track, says Secretary General
21 Jan 19 NewsThe East African Community (EAC) Secretary General, Amb. Liberat Mfumukeko, has said the region is without doubt,on the right track with significant achievements registered in 2018...
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African production and exports of grapes and grape products in perspective
22 Dec 18 PublicationsThis trade brief examines the African production and export of grapes and grape products – namely fresh grapes, dried grapes, grape juice, wine, and fortified wines. In tonnage, ...
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African agricultural production
30 Nov 18 PublicationsIn a recent tralac publication, Agriculture and the African Continental Free Trade Area, Sandrey et al. (2018) outlined just how many African economies continue to rely on agricult...
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26 Nov 18 NewsAfrican trade and infrastructure events starting today:
PIDA Week 2018, in Victoria Falls. Nepad CEO, Ibrahim Assane Mayaki: “As regional integration arrangements deepen and...
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22 Nov 18 NewsWTO updates:
(i) G20 economies: WTO report shows sharp rise in trade-restrictive measures
A total of 40 new trade-restrictive measures were applied by G20 economies during the re...
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East Africa the fastest growing region in Africa, with people leading longer and healthier lives
21 Nov 18 News22nd Meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) for Eastern Africa
With an average growth rate of 6.7% between 2013 and 2017 – double the African average – Ea...
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Tobacco in Africa: production and trade
19 Nov 18 PublicationsAfrica’s leading agricultural export is cocoa beans from west Africa, but next in importance is tobacco and tobacco products. However, the relative importance of tobacco as a cro...
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The 2018 Global Food Security Index: What does the picture look like?
18 Nov 18 BlogFood security is the state in which all people at all times have physical and economic access to adequate, safe and nutritious food that meet their dietary needs and food preferenc...
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15 Nov 18 NewsAfCFTA Phase II negotiations: expert workshop concludes today in Addis (UNECA)
The AfCFTA Phase II issues are investment, competition policy, and intellectual property rights. The...
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Mozambique Economic Update: Less poverty, but more inequality
15 Nov 18 NewsAs Mozambique begins to emerge from a two-year economic downturn, a new World Bank report warns that the country’s fiscal outlook remains fragile.
Buoyed by a drop in inflation ...
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13 Nov 18 NewsRegional Risks for Doing Business 2018 (WEF)
Of the 34 countries in sub-Saharan Africa that we surveyed, “unemployment and underemployment” was identified as the most pressing...
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