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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...

Uganda - South Africa Investment Summit opens next week in South Africa (Monitor) The Ugandan business community has been flagged off in preparation for the South Africa Trade Inv...

Ministers welcome 2023 Budget (SAnews) Government Ministers have welcomed the 2023 Budget Speech, saying Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana did his best to extricate the count...

Parliament passes Agricultural Amendment Bill (SAnews) The National Assembly (NA) has passed the Agricultural Product Standards Amendment Bill and the National Veld and Fores...

Agriculture growth projects stalled by load shedding crisis (IOL) Further deterioration in the electricity crisis has been a major cause of delay in the implementation of agr...

TRACIT calls for improved measures to combat illicit trade in South Africa (AJOT) A new study by the Transnational Alliance to Combat Illicit Trade (TRACIT) shows that illici...

Trade, Industry and Competition on Defence Export Council mission to seek export opportunities in Middle East for South African Companies (South African Government) The Chief...

Sugar industry making progress on implementing master plan (Engineering News) The advent of the Sugarcane Master Plan has been a crucial intervention aimed at stabilising the...

Tanzania: Coffee to Trade Under AfCFTA Market From July (All Africa) COFFEE will be the first Tanzania's product to trade under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) ma...

ECA Support to Equatorial Guinea for the Development of a National AfCFTA Strategy (UNECA) Malabo, 13 February 2023 (ECA) -  the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa...