Tag: Intra-Africa trade
Guinea-Bissau: Intra-Africa trade and tariff profile
20 Dec 18 InfographicsThis Trade Data Update provides an overview of Guniea-Bissau’s intra-African trade relationships, both within the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and with other individual A...
Cameroon: Intra-Africa trade and tariff profile
20 Dec 18 InfographicsCameroon’s trade composition with Africa is relatively concentrated in a few products in terms for both imports and exports, albeit imports are more concentrated. Cameroon has a ...
Inaugural Intra-African Trade Fair ends, Kigali announced host of IATF2020
18 Dec 18 NewsThe inaugural Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF 2018) ended in Cairo on 17 December 2018 with the Rwandese capital of Kigali being announced as the host of the 2020 event.
Former Nig...
Former Nigerian President Obasanjo, in appearance at Intra-African Trade Fair, urges quick ratification of AfCFTA
17 Dec 18 NewsFormer Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday in Cairo urged all African countries to ensure the quick ratification of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA)...
IATF 2018: Intra-African trade the engine for developing Africa
13 Dec 18 NewsAfrica must forge ahead with the remaining technical negotiations for the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) as African Union member countries continue to sign and ratify...
Inaugural Intra-African Trade Fair to drive continent’s development of export manufacturing
12 Dec 18 NewsThe first-ever Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF) to be held on the continent opened on Tuesday, 11 December 2018 in Cairo, Egypt with the President of the African Export-Import ...
Intra-Africa trade and tariff profiles
22 Oct 18 PublicationsAs Africa moves towards implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement, signed in Kigali, Rwanda in March 2018, tralac has prepared a series of indivi...
Guinea: Intra-Africa trade and tariff profile
21 Oct 18 InfographicsThis Trade Data Update provides an overview of Guinea’s intra-African trade relationships, both within the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and with other individual African ...
Intra-African Trade – focusing on trade within Regional Economic Communities
17 Oct 18 PublicationsIntra-African trade is low (at 16.7% according to 2016 tralac analysis) compared to intra-regional trade in other parts of the world. The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFT...
Intra-African trade key to continent’s economic growth, says Mauritian Minister
18 Sep 18 NewsThe 24th Session of the Inter-Governmental Committee of Experts (ICE) of Southern Africa opened in Mauritius today with an impassioned plea from Foreign Affairs, Regional Integrati...
AU blames lack of information for low intra-Africa trade
24 Jul 18 NewsLack of information of market opportunities among traders across Africa is the biggest cause of low intra-Africa trade, the African Union said on Monday.
Albert Muchanga, the Afri...
Nigeria to increase share of intra - African trade
17 Jul 18 NewsVice President of Nigeria Yemi Osinbajo on Monday lamented the low level of trade between Nigeria and other countries in Africa and expressed optimism that the Federal Government w...
Boosting Intra-African Trade: Implications of the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement – African Trade Report 2018
12 Jul 18 NewsThe 2018 edition of the African Export-Import Bank’s annual flagship report – the African Trade Report – titled “Boosting Intra-African Trade: Implications of the African C...
SWIFT data shows intra-Africa payments clearing and trade is increasing
21 Jun 18 NewsUse of US dollar declining while West African franc and South African rand increasing
SWIFT has published a new white paper mapping commercial payment flows against financial flow...
South African government remains committed to intra-African investment in the African continent
21 Feb 18 NewsHead of Trade Invest Africa (TIA), Ms Lerato Mataboge, mentioned engagements between government, private sector and the business fraternity as imperative to the realisation of Afri...
Intra-African investments key for economic growth
13 Oct 17 NewsPresident Jacob Zuma says intra-African investments are critical to Africa’s future economic growth and South Africa is ready to contribute meaningfully to increase the levels of...
Recommendations from the AU Boosting Intra-African Trade workshop
22 Sep 17 NewsThe USAID East Africa Trade and Investment Hub supported a “Boosting Intra-African Trade Workshop,” in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on 13th-15th September, 2017 to strengthen k...
Bugesera airport to boost intra-Africa trade – Kagame
10 Aug 17 NewsPresident Paul Kagame has said that the envisioned Bugesera International Airport will not only support Rwanda’s socio-economic transformation but also facilitate economic integr...
South Africa’s trading relationship with Africa – 2016
18 Jul 17 InfographicsAfrica presents an opportunity for South Africa to expand its markets, given the political impetus to create a continental free trade area in Africa, which will provide duty free a...
Boosting intra-African trade crucial to Africa’s development, says ECA’s Stephen Karingi
12 Jul 17 NewsThe Aid for Trade Global Review 2017 opened at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) headquarters in Geneva yesterday with the Economic Commission for Africa’s Capacity Development ...