Tag: AfCFTA

6 February 2023 | Cape Town Featuring contributions from: Trudi Hartzenberg, Gerhard Erasmus, Michael Lawrence, Terry Gale, Eckart Naumann, John Stuart Topics for Discussion...

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement establishes a rather standard continent-wide preferential trade regime for goods and services. It does not yet contain sp...

The decision to adopt a Protocol on Women and the Youth as part of the collection of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) legal instruments is an important development....

The AfCFTA legal instruments have been negotiated in terms of founding Principles meant to steer the design and operations of the AfCFTA African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA...

When the negotiations for the adoption of the legal instruments of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) were launched in 2015, the objective was to boost intra African ...

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) wants to boost intra-African trade through a continent-wide preferential trade in goods (and some services) arrangement. It wants t...

What must the AfCFTA deliver and how? A basic answer to this question can be found in Article 3 (General Objectives) and Article 4 (Specific Objectives) of the AfCFTA Agreement. Th...

The economic, political, and moral arguments for promoting and securing the interests and rights of women traders are irrefutable. Despite some advances, women still hold fewer job...

Government Support Will Help Transform Poultry Industry, Ensure Food Security (The Department of Trade Industry and Competition) The support that government provides to black-owne...

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...

Regional Value Chains (RVCs) – a localised form of a global value chain (GVC) – are a form of trade that involves a chain of intermediate products and services value addition f...

Local news AfreximBank earmarks $100 million to tackle Nigeria’s export challenges (The Guardian Nigeria) The African Export and Import Bank (Afreximbank), yesterday, announced...

The ways in which developing countries industrialised post the industrial revolution have drawn attention from scholars for decades. The ‘Asian tigers’ are a group of South-Eas...

DOWNLOAD PUBLICATION This Trade Report analyses one of the value chains identified as a development priority by the AfCFTA: the clothing, textile & leather sector (CT&L) i...

Local news Zimbabwe Sanctions | Activists denounce new sanction regime (ENCA) HARARE - The United States has slapped new targeted sanctions on Zimbabwe. This is d...

Digital trade and digitally enabled transactions of trade in goods and services have been increasing globally. In Kenya, the growth of digital trade and digitally enabled transacti...

Malawi ratified the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) on 15 January 2021 and has been participating in the negotiations of trade in services liberalisation under the Pro...

DOWNLOAD PUBLICATION This trade report deals with the possible ways African countries can benefit from the AfCFTA as that preferential trade area becomes a reality, with Mauritius...

The governance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) is essential for efficient and open markets at both the domestic, continental and international levels. In many countries, SOEs are...

On 7 July 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari signed the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA), formalising Nigeria as a party. After originally declining to sign the...