Tag: COMESA
Region in joint efforts to develop cross-border trade
29 Nov 17 NewsRwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo officials have committed to work together in addressing challenges hindering cross-border trade in the region...
EAC hands over COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Task Force Chairmanship to COMESA
20 Nov 17 NewsThe Secretary General of the East African Community (EAC), Amb. Liberat Mfumukeko handed over the Chairmanship of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Task Force (TTF) to Mr Sindiso Ndem...
The COMESA Court of Justice clarifies important Jurisdictional Issues
16 Nov 17 DiscussionAfrica’s trade and integration endeavours are anchored in international legal instruments. This suggests that certain practical benefits should follow: Legal certainty about comp...
Zimbabwe re-brands Statutory Instrument (SI) 64
16 Nov 17 DiscussionIn the year 2016, Zimbabwe gazetted Statutory Instrument 64 of 2016 (SI 64). The SI 64 required traders to obtain an import licence from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce befor...
Kenya’s sugar imports rise threefold as cane harvests drop to lowest level ever in nine years
09 Nov 17 NewsKenya’s sugar imports increased by more than 300 per cent in the first nine months of this year, at a time the country’s cane production has fallen to its lowest in nine years....
37th COMESA Intergovernmental Committee Meeting opens in Lusaka
01 Nov 17 NewsThe 37th meeting of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Intergovernmental Committee (IC) opened in Lusaka on 30 October 2017.
The IC brings together Permane...
Uganda: 8th Annual Joint Trade, Industry and Cooperatives Sector Review
27 Oct 17 NewsThe Trade sector is one of the key sectors that contribute to the economic development of the country.
Every year sector stakeholders meet at a conference to review the performanc...
Official launch of the Tripartite Transport & Transit Facilitation Programme (TTTFP)
26 Oct 17 NewsThe high ratio of landlocked countries, the long distances to gateway ports, the lack of an integrated and liberalised road transport market in the East and Southern African region...
COMESA Policy Organs meetings begin this week
24 Oct 17 NewsTop ranking government officials led by Ministers from the 19 COMESA Member States will be converging in Lusaka, Zambia in the next two weeks for the annual decision-making meeting...
COMESA adopts revised RCTG Operations Manual
20 Oct 17 NewsThe Council of the Regional Customs Transit Guarantee Scheme (RCTG) has adopted the revised Operations Manual with amendments and decided that it should be circulated to all member...
Tripartite FTA signatures rise to 21 as Mauritius signs
10 Oct 17 NewsMauritius has signed the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Area Agreement. This brings the total to 21 out of 26 countries that have signed the regional trade framework.
Minis...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
06 Oct 17 NewsApplications are now open for tralac’s e-course: Trade in the 21st Century – legal and policy considerations for Africa. Note the closing date: 11 October 2017
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COMESA region set to abolish roaming charges
06 Oct 17 NewsCitizens in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) may soon enjoy reduced calling charges, courtesy of a decision taken on Wednesday by Ministers in charge of i...
Small-scale cross-border traders call on DRC to enforce better tax regime
06 Oct 17 NewsSmall-scale traders along the Rubavu-Goma border have raised concerns over what they perceive as an ‘illegal tax’ levied on them by DR Congo officials.
Their protest is hinged...
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05 Oct 17 NewsStarting today, in Accra: The WIDER Development Conference on migration and mobility (jointly organized with the African Research Universities Alliance). Downloads: poster presenta...
COMESA’s trade potential pegged at over US$80bn
05 Oct 17 NewsThe current intra-regional trade in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa is US$20 billion with a potential of over US$82.3 billion. This figure has risen from US$3.2 b...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
29 Sep 17 NewsToday, in Lusaka: Zambia’s Minister of Finance, Felix Mutati, delivers the 2018 national budget
Yesterday, in Maseru: The first sitting of the Lesotho Coordinating Committee on ...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
15 Sep 17 Newstralac’s Weekly e-newsletter is posted. Highlights include: Prof Gerard Erasmus asking if the court ruling on the Kenyan elections in Kenya is a precedent for inter-state dispute...
COMESA to recruit a new Secretary General in 2018
15 Sep 17 NewsThe Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa will appoint a new Secretary General next year (2018), through a competitive process.
With 19 countries, a geographical size of 1...
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11 Sep 17 NewsStarting today, in Dar es Salaam: Tanzania oil and gas congress. A DW commentary: Gas and oil key in East African integration
UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Board began its 64th...