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Coming Soon: Online Platform for Trade in Services (COMESA) Lusaka, Friday, March 31, 2023: COMESA will soon launch an Online Platform for Trade in Services that will be used...

Technology Commercialisation is Capable of Driving Economic Transformation (the dtic) The use of technology commercialisation can contribute to economic transformation throug...

Buying local critical to economic growth - DP Mashatile (SAnews) Deputy President Paul Mashatile says buying locally made products and supporting the small businesses which p...

Patel highlights challenges faced by South African manufacturers, notes govt efforts (Engineering News) To boost productivity in South Africa, four key business factors need urgen...

More work on regulation codes certification and standards needed for hydrogen economy (Engineering News) If South Africa wants to develop a hydrogen economy, it cannot have a...

Private energy sector participation could improve SA’s growth outlook – IMF (SAnews) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) believes that South Africa’s implementation o...

UK 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, ...

RC: How to boost Tanzania’s exports to India (The Citizen) Local exporters have been advised to add value to their products instead of selling them in raw form. Raw exports...

Eswatini trade pact to be extended by five years (Taipei Times) President Tsai Ing-wen and Eswatini Prime Minister Cleopas Sipho Dlamini agreed to extend a bilateral economic...

Egypt’s trade deficit plunges 54% YoY in December 2022: CAPMAS (ZAWYA) Egypt’s trade balance deficit dropped by 54% year on year (YoY) to $1.93 billion in December 2022, ...

‘EU is putting draconian measures on South African citrus’ (SABC News) The Citrus Growers Association of South Africa has requested Trade and Industry Minister Ebrahim Pa...

SA tyre manufacturers potentially exposed to dumping from China (The Citizen) Anti-dumping duties against Chinese exporters of car, bus and lorry tyres to South Africa have e...

IMF Staff Completes 2023 Article IV Mission to Eswatini (IMF) “Eswatini’s economy was comparatively resilient through the pandemic. Following a strong rebound of 7.9 perc...

Provisional duties on imported tyres from China expire, but Itac investigation continues (Engineering News) The International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa ...

Stainless steel sector well-positioned to supply African markets, despite loadshedding challenge (Engineering News) The biggest hurdle stainless steel production and fabricat...

South Africa is exporting more food. But it needs to find new growth frontiers (The Conversation) South African agricultural exports were up for the third consecutive year in 2022...

South Africa must prioritise decarbonisation, as $1.5bn of exports to EU are at risk (Engineering News) South Africa should prioritise its decarbonisation strategy, as i...

International Trade Centre Launches Toam in Seychelles for Facilitating Trade (All Africa) Seychelles' private sector can now report the obstacles and challenges it encounters thr...

South Africa swings into a R23 billion trade deficit (Business Tech) South Africa recorded a preliminary trade balance deficit of R23.05 billion in January 2023. Despite rec...

Infrastructure is key to SA’s development (SAnews) Improving government’s performance as a contributor to the construction sector is key to unlocking the country’s econ...