Tag: Economic Partnership Agreements
EU Economic Partnership Agreements resources
08 Oct 23 ResourceSouth Africa, the SADC-EU EPA and the SACUM-UK EPA Tariff-Rate Quota Utilisation Update for 2022
26 Jul 23 PublicationsThis Trade Brief focuses on two trade agreements: firstly, the trading relationship between the European Union (EU) and the Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU) under the Southern ...
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07 Jul 23 NewsSouth Africa’s agricultural sector recorded significant decline in the first quarter (Engineering News)
The Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP) has highlighted, in a ...
EU and Kenya conclude negotiations for an ambitious Economic Partnership Agreement with strong sustainability provisions
19 Jun 23 NewsThe EU and Kenya have announced today the political conclusion of the negotiations for an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). The Agreement will boost trade in goods and create n...
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19 Jun 23 NewsEU and Kenya conclude negotiations for an ambitious Economic Partnership Agreement with strong sustainability provisions (European Commission)
(European Commission)
The EU and Ke...
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05 Apr 23 News10% hike in SA trade exports, stats show (Bizcommunity)
South Africa recorded a trade surplus of R16.1bn in February 2023 compared to a deficit of R22.7bn in January 2023, and hig...
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21 Mar 23 NewsUK and Kenya hold first-ever Economic Partnership Agreement Council to secure jobs and increase trade (GOV.UK)
On Tuesday 21 March, Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for Investments, ...
Southern African Development Community-European Union Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA): Booklet
15 Jul 22 PublicationsThe SADC – EU EPA is a comprehensive economic partnership agreement between the European Union and South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Eswatini, and Mozambique. Angol...
Preferential Tariff Rate Quota Utilisation for 2021 under the EU-SADC EPA
26 Feb 22 PublicationsThe SADC-EU Economic Partnership Agreement was concluded and signed on the 10th of June 2016 by the European Union and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) EPA Group c...
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17 Feb 22 NewsCountry-related news
Trade conditions on an upward trend, Sacci survey shows (Engineering News)
Trade conditions continued to improve in January after an uncertain second half of...
The SACUM-UK EPA and TRQs
21 Jun 21 BlogGreat Britain has left the European Union’s (EU) single market and customs union. This has meant that the preferential agreement between the EU and the Southern Africa Developmen...
Update on the Preferential Tariff Rate Quota Utilisation under the EU-SADC EPA
18 Jun 21 BlogEU-SADC EPA a boost from the TDCA for South Africa
The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European Union (EU) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) E...
Cameroon signs an Interim Economic Partnership Agreement with the United Kingdom
15 Apr 21 BlogOn the 9 March 2021 in London, the High Commissioner of Cameroon to the United Kingdom (UK) His Excellency Albert Fotabong Njoteh and the UK International Trade Minister Ranil Jaya...
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08 Mar 21 NewsCountry focus
Angola: IMF Hails Angola's Economic Reforms Amid Covid-19 (All Africa)
Despite the effects of Covid-19 on all economies in the world, the Angolan government had alr...
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04 Mar 21 NewsCountry focus
South Africa urged to play to strengths as its plots role in lithium-ion battery value chain (Creamer Media’s Mining Weekly)
A newly released study of the p...
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01 Mar 21 NewsCountry focus
South Africa seeks to lift infrastructure investment with change to pension fund rules (Engineering News)
South Africa's National Treasury is proposing changi...
Preferential trade with Mauritius: market access for the UK, China, and state parties of the AfCFTA
10 Feb 21 BlogAs of 1 January 2021, the Mauritian tariff book has three additional columns for preferential market access to the Mauritian market. These tariffs are for imports from the United K...
SACUM-UK EPA and SA-US Trade Relations, including AGOA
28 Oct 20 NewsPresentation by Ambassador Xavier Carim, Deputy Director General, Trade Policy, Negotiations and Cooperation Branch at the dtic, to the Select Committee on Trade and Industry, Econ...
The UK-SACUM Economic Partnership Agreement
05 Oct 20 BlogUntil 31 December 2020, goods exported from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) member states and from Mozambique to the United Kingdom (UK) will be covered by the SADC-EU Ec...
Africa’s Trade with the EU and the UK post Brexit
05 Oct 20 BlogUntil the United Kingdom (UK) finally exits from the European Union (EU) single market at the end of this year, most African exports to the UK enjoy preferential access in terms of...