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THE unpredictable Southern African Customs Union (SACU) receipts in the country will have a negative impact on the country’s foreign reserves. Southern African Research Foundati...

South African delegates will soon be touring several European nations in a bid to clarify citrus black spot (CBS) inspection procedures, which are estimated to be squeezing more th...

This publication highlights what the East African Community has achieved in redressing Non Tariff Barriers in the second quarter of the financial year 2014/2015. It is aimed at ga...

Uganda has scrapped work permit fees and visa requirements for Kenyans and Rwandans entering and leaving the country. The decision is in line with the ongoing implementation...

Experts have praised an agreement to use national currencies in future bilateral trade between Cairo and Moscow instead of the US dollar that was taken during Russian President Vla...

The ECOWAS Community Development Programme (CDP) is set to mobilize about $21 billion to enable them finance over 200 projects that cuts across various sectors of the economy in th...

The Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr Mzwandile Masina will lead a delegation of 25 South African business people to the sixth annual India Investment and Trade Initiative ...

The country could be facing a food crisis of a magnitude not experienced since the crop failures of 1992, when the government had to subsidise mealie meal for the poor, if the nort...

While the expanding importance of services in the economy has certainly been noticed, it is only recently that the international trade literature has started to study the linkages ...

The injection of additional 280 megawatts produced in Olkaria to the national grid in December has lifted Kenya’s global ranking as the eighth largest producer of geothermal en...

Communications ministers in the five East African Community members states have been given up to July to harmonise roaming rates in the region. The directive was issued thro...

Rwanda yesterday assented to regulations that will govern trading in seed varieties within the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa). The regulations, which will ...

This UNCTAD IIA Issues Note reviews recent trends in international investment agreements (IIAs) as well as investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) cases, providing up-to-date stat...

ArcelorMittal SA has applied to the International Trade Administration Commission (Itac) for anti-dumping duties as they claim Chinese steel is coming into South Africa and being s...

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) approved on Wednesday, February 18 in Abidjan an African Development Fund (ADF) Loan of US $144.9 million, to th...

With the signature of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), countries have committed to creating or maintaining a national trade facilitation committee. Setting up a nationa...

The Zambia Bureau of Standards (ZABS) has commissioned a US$20,000 packaging and testing equipment to meet regional standardsThe International Trade Centre (ITC) facilitated the ...

The Consul-General of the People’s Republic of China in Lagos, Mr. Liu Kan, has revealed that the volume of trade between Nigeria and China in 2014 was about $18.1 billion.Mr Kin...

The government has approved a draft law that seeks to impose a new levy on goods imported from outside the East African Community (EAC) in order to collect funds needed for regiona...

ECOWAS Member States have been encouraged to integrate regional progammes and aspirations in their national development plans to facilitate the realization of the overarching objec...