Tag: EAC - tralac trade law centre

Rwanda: Intra-Africa trade and tariff profile

06 Dec 19 Resource

Intra-Africa trade profile for 2018 In 2018, Rwanda imported and exported goods to and from the rest of Africa to the value of US$448 million and US$735 million, respectivel...

Kenya: Intra-Africa trade and tariff profile

06 Dec 19 Resource

Intra-Africa trade profile for 2018 In 2018, 18% of Kenya’s total trade was intra-Africa; 80% of that trade was with EAC, COMESA and IGAD member states. Kenya imported and expor...

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02 Dec 19 News

The African Economic Conference 2019 began today in Sharm el-Sheikh. The theme: Jobs, entrepreneurship and capacity development for African youths. Concept note (pdf): Specificall...

Burundi: Intra-Africa trade and tariff profile

01 Dec 19 Resource

Intra-Africa trade profile for 2018 In 2018, Burundi exported and imported goods to and from the rest of Africa to the value of US$49 million and US$195 million, respectively. Int...

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27 Nov 19 News

EAC Trade and Investment Report 2018: Accelerating market-driven integration This report is structured in three parts, covering four chapters. Part One includes the backgroun...

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15 Nov 19 News

Nigeria to form border force with neighbors Benin and Niger to fight smuggling (Reuters) Nigeria and neighboring countries Benin and Niger have agreed to set up a joint border pat...

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21 Oct 19 News

Diarise: EAC Regional Meeting on Trade Facilitation (22-25 October, Dar es Salaam). The meeting, under the leadership of the EAC Secretariat with the participation of the Chai...

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15 Oct 19 News

Concluding today, in Lusaka: CII-Exim Bank Regional Conclave on India-Southern Africa Project Partnership A guide to the WB/IMF 2019 Annual Meetings (which concludes on Sunday) ...

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10 Oct 19 News

Africa’s Pulse (World Bank) Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic performance has remained sluggish, hampered by persistent uncertainty in the global economy and the slow pace of refo...

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27 Sep 19 News

Reporting African trade and industrialization trends, dynamics: media workshops in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Addis Ababa (i) Next week in Johannesburg: ECA's AfCFTA Med...

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25 Sep 19 News

Tributes continue to pour in following the death of Nigeria's chief trade negotiator and one of the AfCFTA's architects, Ambassador Chiedu Osakwe. A selection: (i) Dav...

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10 Sep 19 News

Profiled EAC trade and regional integration policy events starting today: EAC experts meeting on the AfCFTA Extraordinary meeting of the Sectoral Council on Trade, Investment, Fi...

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22 Aug 19 News

The East African Business Council convened a workshop today in Nairobi to review the EAC’s Common External Tariff. Selected tweeted highlights: @KEPSA_KENYA: The workshop is exp...

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14 Aug 19 News

Two commentaries on intra-African trade, pointing to the potential impact of the AfCFTA: Global Trade Review’s (GTR) Africa trade briefing: Rebecca Harding, CEO of Coriolis...

“EAC Staff desert stations over pay”: EAC Press Statement – Clarification of issues

14 Aug 19 News

Our attention has been drawn to issues raised in a story by The East African Newspaper edition of 10th – 16th August, 2019 headlined “EAC Staff desert stations over pay”. At...

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05 Aug 19 News

The Ministerial Session of the 2019 AGOA Forum began to today in Abidjan: selected updates The theme of this year’s Forum is AGOA and the Future: Developing a new trade para...

Uganda: Intra-Africa trade and tariff profile

25 Jul 19 Resource

Intra-Africa trade profile for 2018 In 2018, Uganda exported and imported goods to the value of US$1.6 billion and US$1.4 billion, respectively to and from the rest of Africa. Int...

Tanzania: Intra-Africa trade and tariff profile

25 Jul 19 Resource

Intra-Africa trade profile for 2018 Tanzania’s trade composition with Africa is relatively concentrated in a few products in terms of exports while relatively diversified when i...

The Development of REC Community Law: The EAC Court of Justice makes an important Contribution

12 Jul 19 Publications

When the internal legal order of a particular regional integration arrangement is described as being based on “Community Law”, it typically means an advanced level of integrati...

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05 Jul 19 News

Today’s featured commentary, David Pilling (Financial Times Africa Editor): Are tech companies Africa’s new colonialists? Ghana appears to have won the bid to host the AfCFTA ...