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Testimony of United States Trade Representative Michael Froman Before the Senate Finance Committee on the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) July 30, 2014 Washington D.C. ...

The World Trade Organization failed on Thursday to reach a deal to standardise customs rules, which would have been the first global trade reform in two decades but was blocked by ...

Common Market for Southern and Eastern Africa (COMESA) has approved over US$1 billion in mergers in nine member states last year. COMESA competition commission (CCC) chief executi...

Statement by the Heads of State of Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and South Sudan on the Lamu Port Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor Project Today [31 July 2014], we h...

Businesspeople from Mozambique and Japan have agreed, at meetings in Maputo, to meet again in 2015 in Tokyo to continue to study increased Japanese investments in Mozambique, accor...

With the kick-off of the United Nations post-2015 sustainable development agenda fast approaching, ministers and senior Government officials from across the globe have gathered in ...

Remarks by Ambassador Michael Froman at the Brookings Institution, 29 July 2014 A Shared History Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Human progress is neither automatic nor...

It is credible to claim that among initiatives for economic integration in sub-Saharan Africa, the East African Community (EAC) is the finest example. Not only does it have ...

The federal government has re-affirmed its commitment towards facilitating the growth and development of domestic trade across the country. The Minister of Industry, Trade and Inv...

The International Labour Office’s Microinsurance Innovation Facility (the Facility) and World Bank Group Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF) launch a dynamic partnership to en...

Intergovernmental Group of Experts meeting hears about the importance of international cooperation in the functioning of effective competition laws and policies. The fourteenth se...

India’s willingness to support a rules-based trading order and fulfil its obligations would help to welcome greater investment from the U.S., Secretary Kerry said. While Ind...

South Africa wants the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) to be extended for a 15-year period. “Our views as South Africa are very similar to the views of Africa, Agoa el...

South Africa risks being left out of the lucrative African Growth and Opportunity Act – a preferential trade programme, writes Peter Fabricius. US ambassador to South Africa Pat...

The East African Community and the European Union have yet again failed to agree on the long awaited Economic Partnership Agreements, putting the principal market for Kenya fresh...

In August 2008, Heads of State of the Southern African Development Community adopted the ground-breaking SADC Protocol on Gender and Development. This followed a concerted campaign...

The upcoming U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit, taking place from August 4-6, provides an important opportunity for the United States government and African heads of state to engage in...

The U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit blog series is a collection of posts discussing efforts to strengthen ties between the United States and Africa ahead of the first continen...

The government wants at least 25% of the population to be included in the formal financial sector by 2016. It is hoped that this will cause a substantial reduction in poverty le...

House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee held a hearing on trade with Africa and the African Growth and Opportunity Act on July 29, 2014 in Washington, DC. BACKGROUND In 2000, Con...