Tag: AfCFTA

Trade is crucial for economic growth and food security and Africa has huge potential for trade both in global and intra-regional terms, for example, as a result of its natural reso...

Industry Ministers from BRICS countries on Wednesday, 4 July, 2018 signed a Declaration on the implementation of the Digital Industrial Revolution (DIR). The Ministers met at the ...

Talks between Kenya and Tanzania to resolve the non-tariff barriers affecting bilateral trade entered their second day today. For updates: @Trade_Kenya Concluding today, in Lagos:...

The AfCFTA is an ambitious project. Although it is called the Continental Free Trade Area, it is more than a trade in goods agreement. It will also cover trade in services, facilit...

As directed by President Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian Office for Trade Negotiations (NOTN) conducted a nationwide, sectoral and industry-wide consultation and sensitization exerc...

Updated: tralac’s AfCFTA Ratification Barometer UNU-WIDER has posted an early view of the forthcoming book Industries without Smoke-stacks: Industrialization in Africa reconside...

South Africa has signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement with the African Union, which will pave the way for the country to benefit from inter-regional tr...

The supreme organ of the African Union, the Assembly, which comprises Heads of State and Government of all the 55 African countries, began its 31st ordinary session on 1 July 2018 ...

A reminder that the SACU Heads of State Summit took place today in Gaborone. SA’s President Ramaphosa will be accompanied by the Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies, an...

On 13 June 2016, the Senate referred the following matter to the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee for inquiry and report by 14 February 2018: Australi...

In a speech to the 33rd Session of the Executive Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the African Union in Nouakchott, Mauritania, ECA’s Executive Secretary ...

Thirty-Sixth Ordinary Session of the PRC underway in Nouakchott, Mauritania The launch of the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM) in Addis Ababa in January, as well as the...

Private Sector and Regional Integration in Southern Africa: Accelerating Opportunities for Investments and Growth The Southern Africa Regional Integration Stakeholder Forum was co...

A reminder: The Southern African Structured Trade Seminar is underway in Livingstone. For Twitter updates: #SAST2018 WTO’s Trade Facilitation Agreement: update “Almost 85% of...

Next month’s BRICS Summit: preview by Standard Bank’s Jeremy Stevens South Africa will host the 10th annual summit of the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa group. ...

Underway, in Dar es Salaam: Workshop on establishing a National Trade Facilitation Roadmap in Tanzania (25-29 June) Underway, in Victoria Falls: NEPAD Agency, PIDA_Africa strategi...

tralac received a request to assist Zambia’s Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry to prepare for the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) negotiations; specifically o...

A regional body has urged African states to seek alternative ways of protecting some sectors of their economy as a continental free trade area takes effect. The African Continenta...

December 20 is the target to have at least 30 African countries to have ratified the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCTA), members of the Senate heard on Tuesday. Upda...

Towards an African e-commerce strategy The African Union E-Commerce Conference will take place in Nairobi, Kenya from the 23-25 July 2018. The main objective of this Conferen...