Tag: COMESA
South African Government Communications on approved agreement to establish Tripartite Free Trade Area
11 May 18 NewsSADC Statement
At its meeting at Tuynhuys in Cape Town on Wednesday, 9 May 2018, Cabinet approved the agreement establishing the Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) between the Comm...
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10 May 18 NewsFrom tralac’s recent high-level dialogue on SACU: the workshop report (pdf). Discussions centred on SACU revenue sharing, SACU’s external relations, and the future of SACU. Upd...
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25 Apr 18 NewsAubrey Hruby: African blue chips need to start corporate venture arms to invigorate startup funding (Quartz)
An increasing number of African companies are competing in the global ...
Comesa partner states upbeat about digital free trade area
25 Apr 18 NewsCOMESA director of Trade, Customs and Monetary Affairs Dr Francis Mangeni spoke to Julius Barigaba about Africa’s first blockchain technology for clearing imports
COMESA is look...
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18 Apr 18 NewsNext week, in Libreville, Gabon: Building Africa’s negotiating capacity for improved terms of engagement with the rest of the world (23-27 April)
Africa’s Pulse: Boosting acce...
COMESA holds workshop to enhance regional integration programme
18 Apr 18 NewsThe final activity of a project that aims at contributing to COMESA’s overall goals of having sustainable economic development and poverty reduction in the region was held in Lus...
Monetary integration is achievable – COMESA Central Bank chiefs
11 Apr 18 NewsGovernors of Central Banks and representatives from eleven COMESA countries have reiterated that achieving monetary integration is possible and it will be enabled if Member countri...
Tripartite Free Trade Agreement to be tabled before Parliament
29 Mar 18 NewsInternational Relations and Cooperation Deputy Minister Luwellyn Landers says government is in the process of submitting documentation and the Tripartite Free Trade Area Agreement ...
Gridlock at Kasumbalesa: COMESA steps in
28 Mar 18 NewsIn the past two weeks, cross border trade at the busy Kasumbalesa border crossing between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo has been slowly heading to a standstill. This ...
Informal cross-border trading – review of the simplified trade regimes in east and southern Africa
08 Mar 18 PublicationsThis Trade Brief presents a discussion of the importance of Informal Cross-Border Trading (ICBT) for socio-economic development in the east and southern Africa region. Althoug...
Borderline: Women in informal trade want to do business legally and become more prosperous
06 Mar 18 NewsCross-border trade has broad women’s economic empowerment, poverty alleviation and development ramifications in many developing countries.
UNCTAD travelled to half a dozen front...
COMESA Gender experts’ meeting underway in Khartoum
26 Feb 18 NewsOver 40 gender experts from 15 COMESA Member States began their annual meeting in Sudan yesterday to review the gender policy implementation plan and other policy documents and rep...
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22 Feb 18 NewsFeatured interactive: NEPAD’s impact on the continent
The CSAE Conference 2018 (18-20 March, Oxford) includes four trade panels: the preliminary papers have been posted
Selecte...
COMESA to introduce seed labels and certificates to boost regional trade
22 Feb 18 NewsCOMESA is set to become the first Regional Economic Community in the world to introduce the use and distribution of seed labels and certificates as a way of improving access to qua...
What is COMESA’s Digital Free Trade Area and should SADC have one too?
15 Feb 18 PublicationsThe Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) announced in November 2017 that its Secretariat had ‘completed the design of the digital free trade area’, and that t...
Botswana signs the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Area Agreement
31 Jan 18 NewsBotswana has signed the Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) Agreement which consists of 26 countries of the three Regional Economic Communities of Common Market for Eastern and South...
Mombasa set to get Dubai-like free port
23 Jan 18 NewsMombasa is set to get a free trade zone (FTZ) for motor vehicles this year in a policy move that could create thousands of new jobs for traders and service providers.
An FTZ, such...
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22 Jan 18 NewsWhat to look forward to, policy-wise, at the January 2018 AU Summit – which started today: a series of tweets by AUC Deputy Chairperson @AU_KwesiQuartey
Call for applications: C...
COMESA holds first Digital FTA workshop
22 Jan 18 NewsSixteen COMESA Member States have participated in a two-day workshop on the Digital Free Trade Area (DFTA) in which they agreed that the concept is about empowering traders to do c...
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20 Jan 18 NewsDiarise: 4th EAC Heads of State Retreat on Infrastructure Financing and Development (21-22 February, Kampala)
Regional integration and informal trade in Africa: evidence from Beni...