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Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, at the Trade Negotiations Committee meeting on 25 June 2014, noted concerns about efforts by some delegations to revisit the Trade Facilitation A...

The Nigerian-British Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) says it expects bilateral trade between both nations to exceed its targets this year. Prime Minister David Cameron and President Go...

Tanzania is expected to release a policy on sugar importation this July that will be aimed at protecting sugar companies in the country as well as ensuring that local sugar compani...

It will be a win-win deal. The crux, of course, is for the Government to make it happen Despite several rounds of the negotiations which started in 2007, the proposed EU-India...

Speech by Karel De Gucht, European Commissioner for Trade British American Business Event London, 24 June 2014 Ladies and gentlemen, We are meeting in an impressive place ...

Speech by Andris Piebalgs, European Commissioner for Development, at the Friends of Europe’s Development Policy Forum (DPF) annual Africa Summit entitled ‘Africa: Progress and ...

The Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) has approved a R200-million Grant Fund and a 5-Year Plan for the establishment of a National Cluster to leapfrog local industry's com...

The World Customs Organisation (WCO) has announced that a new trade facilitation model, which will be open to all member countries, including Nigeria, would soon be unveiled. The ...

The draft bill on establishing the Business and Intellectual Property Authority (BIPA) is already before the Cabinet Committee on Legislation, said Minister of Trade and Industry, ...

The fifty-ninth executive session of the Trade and Development Board will be held on 23-25 June 2014 in Room XXVI of the Palais des Nations, Geneva. A report on UNCTAD’s activit...

Spending a week recently in the US city of Bentonville, Arkansas, to attend Walmart’s shareholders’ meetings, underscored why the company’s investment in South Africa three y...

At the African Union (AU) summit in Maputo, Mozambique in 2003, African Heads of State and Government made a resolute and resounding commitment to tackle food insecurity and to acc...

As Argentina starts to mend fences with the international financial markets, the emerging powers that make up the BRICS bloc invited it to their next summit. This could be a step t...

The value of East African Community intra-regional trade is set to rise following the review of the cross-border passage rules of origin on export goods originating from the part...

The latest round of UN climate talks saw countries move into negotiating mode on some of the substantive details that will need to be hammered out over the next 18 months in order ...

Regional trade and the logistics industry could be boosted further following the revision of the rules of origin on exports originating from the East African Community bloc. Accor...

Though Africa is rhetorically South Africa’s first foreign policy priority, in reality it runs a poor second to the rest of Brics (Brazil, Russia, India and China), the former Bu...

The WTO’s report on G-20 trade measures, issued on 18 June 2014, said that “G-20 members put in place 112 new trade restrictive measures during the period mid November 2013 to ...

Arriving in Geneva to mark the 50th anniversary of the United Nations body that promotes international trade to fight poverty, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today th...

China is said to be planning to get rid of strict export quotas and duties on certain rare earth elements, media reports indicated late last week. The rumoured move comes shortly a...