Tag: AfCFTA

Country-related news In 2019, SA celebrated its first smartphone factory. Now it is empty and going on auction (Business Insider South Africa) Towards the end of 2019, Presi...

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is designed to function as one continental trade arrangement in the form of a Free Trade Area (FTA) for all the Member States of th...

The new edition of the Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System 2022 (HS2022) entered into force on the 1st of January 2022. This development means that Customs tariffs, ...

The ongoing negotiations of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Investment Protocol provide a unique opportunity to make the intra-African investment work for women. T...

The AfCFTA is not only a trade deal. It is also a flagship project of the AU and must advance political and developmental aims to “deepen the economic integration of the African ...

Country news South Africa unlikely to see solid economic growth in near term, says GlobalData (Engineering News) Against a backdrop of travel bans, higher inflationary pressures,...

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) adds an important new chapter to Africa’s economic integration agenda. The design of the AfCFTA regime will, however, require tha...

Do the legal instruments of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) contain a philosophy or strategy about deeper continental integration? What might this be? Is the AfCFT...

The negotiations to finalise the tariff schedules and rules of origin (RoO) of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) are taking place during the last two weeks of Januar...

Country news Port cargo up marginally as trade recovers from Covid woes (Business Daily) The Port of Mombasa recorded marginal growth in cargo volumes last year as business stead...

Country news Anxious times for South African citrus (Fruitnet) With the start of the new South African citrus season only two months away, there is still no clarity on the negoti...

Country news South African economy likely to revert to pre-pandemic levels in 2022: World Bank (Financial Express) South Africa’s economy is likely to grow by 2.1 per cent in 2...

National trade news Economic policy uncertainty and the loss of South Africa’s growth momentum: Can the decline be reversed? (Daily Maverick) The gradual loss of growth momentu...

Trade data updates Solid SA trade surplus surprises, but rand takes hit (Fin24) South Africa recorded a trade surplus of R35.83 billion in November, from a revised surplus of R27...

The ongoing negotiations of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Investment Protocol present a unique opportunity to make intra-African investment work for women by des...

The digitalisation of trade – as we move to paperless trade – will have a profound effect on trade management. The conclusion of the first multilateral trade agreement, the Tra...

National Third-quarter Real Economy Bulletin shows auto, iron, platinum export weaknesses (Engineering News) While the sharp downturn in the latest gross domestic product (GDP) d...

National Address by Fikile Majola, Deputy Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition delivered on the occasion of the Virtual Colloquium: Opportunities in mobile applications dev...

The preparations for the negotiations of the Investment Protocol under the AfCFTA agreement (The Agreement) are already underway though still in the early stages. The AfCFTA envisa...

National Treasury notes IMF concerns (SAnews) The National Treasury says the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) concerns over the South African economy are aligned with govern...