Tag: COVID-19
tralac Daily News
21 Oct 20 NewsNational
Taking to the skies (SAnews)
Although the COVID-19 pandemic is still with us and requires all to act responsibly, for many the further easing of travel restrictions coul...
tralac Daily News
20 Oct 20 NewsNational
South Africa’s track record bodes ill for investment drive (IOL)
South Africa will be hard pressed to realise its ambitions of attracting R1 trillion ($61 billion) of ...
tralac Daily News
19 Oct 20 NewsNational
Job creation is key to SA’s economic recovery (SAnews)
As the country recovers from the devastation of the Coronavirus pandemic, President Cyril Ramaphosa has emphasis...
tralac Daily News
16 Oct 20 NewsNational
SA recovery plan to improve economic growth (SAnews)
South Africa’s new Reconstruction and Recovery Plan should help unlock greater job creation and faster economic gr...
South Africa’s PPE shortage – what can we learn?
14 Oct 20 BlogWithin the first week of South Africa’s lock down in response to the Covid-19 crisis, at the end of March, health care professionals were warning that locally available supplies ...
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14 Oct 20 NewsNational
African trade integration is still a far way off, envoy tells Parly (Fin24)
African states are progressing with trade regimes that are past due in a bid to bolster trade...
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13 Oct 20 NewsNational
South Africa won’t meet debt targets, president’s council says (Moneyweb)
South Africa won’t be able to meet its finance ministry’s debt targets and it may be un...
tralac Daily News
12 Oct 20 NewsNational
Time to implement reforms running out – FirstRand chair (Moneyweb)
FirstRand chair Roger Jardine says the “socio-economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic has brough...
National and regional perspectives and responses on the impact of COVID-19 on cross-border trade and Customs border management – what are we learning?
12 Oct 20 BlogWhat began as a worldwide health crisis, turned out to be a global economic shock of unimaginable effects on cross-border trade for travellers, traders, transporters, and policy-ma...
Effects of the COVID-19 Measures on Trade Facilitation in SADC
12 Oct 20 BlogThe COVID-19 pandemic has affected millions of people worldwide and to try and contain the spread of the virus governments the world over have imposed various measures which have l...
COVID-19 Control Measures in SADC – Striking a balance between control and Trade Facilitation
12 Oct 20 BlogThe effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have not spared the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region and like in all other parts of the world, economies of the member stat...
Consortium of Global Multilateral Development Banks calls for measures to support trade continuity in Sub-Saharan Africa
09 Oct 20 NewsThe Pulse check report issued by a consortium of multilateral development banks and trade research institutions, recounts the views of sub-Saharan banks on multi-lat...
tralac Daily News
09 Oct 20 NewsNational
One SA’s Economic Recovery Plan revealed: 20 key interventions (The South African)
One South Africa Movement (One SA) Chief Activist Mmusi Maimane, on Thursday 8 Octob...
World Bank confirms economic downturn in sub-Saharan Africa, outlines key polices needed for recovery
09 Oct 20 NewsAs Sub-Saharan African countries continue to face economic uncertainty in the time of COVID-19, the region’s latest macroeconomic analysis says governments can look to policy ref...
tralac Daily News
08 Oct 20 NewsNational
Illicit trade hotline to curb illegal activity (IOL)
Illegal trading is one of the biggest threats to economic order and growth in the country, according to the Consumer...
tralac Daily News
07 Oct 20 NewsNational
South Africa’s exports to China were surprisingly better in the ‘pandemic quarter’ (Engineering News)
While South Africa had seen on overall decline in exports dur...
tralac Daily News
06 Oct 20 NewsNational
ITAC Completes Investigation Into the Supply of Scrap to the Metals Industry (the dtic)
The International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC) has completed an initial...
tralac Daily News
05 Oct 20 NewsNational
South Africa: Update on partial re-opening of borders (SAnews)
Home Affairs Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, has convened an inclusive meeting involving senior immigration...
tralac Daily News
02 Oct 20 NewsNational
Tax breaks, grey import probe needed to grow local car market, says Naamsa (Engineering News)
As many European countries reintroduce lockdown measures to deal with a sec...
tralac Daily News
01 Oct 20 NewsNational
SA’s trade surplus widens, but it could be thwarted by renewed lockdown restrictions (Fin24)
While South Africa’s trade surplus increased in August, concerns of...