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West Africa’s ministers of finance and trade have adopted the compromise proposals for concluding the decade long negotiations of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with th...

Complying with the requirements to export citrus fruit to the lucrative EU market had cost the local industry as much as R1 billion in the past year, Justin Chadwick, the chief exe...

Adopting ambitious and comprehensive structural reform agendas will offer governments the best chance for a return to strong, sustainable and balanced economic growth that creates ...

Trade and Industry Deputy Minister Elizabeth Thabethe will today lead a 40-member business delegation to India for the fifth annual Investment and Trade Initiative (ITI). The ITI ...

The message from the Americans is loud and clear: Swaziland has to ‘fully’ comply with five conditions or lose their eligibility to participate in the Africa Growth Opportunity...

For most of the post-independence period, Africa’s commercial and development partnerships have been largely dominated by Western Europe, the United States and Canada. For many A...

Overlapping membership in several trade areas is impeding “free circulation of goods” within the East African Community-members states, a regional integration and trade expert ...

Indeed to release the potential of Africa, there is the need to develop means to facilitate trade across the borders and this means major investments in transport infrastructure in...

Ministers fail to outline a clear plan to achieve the target – which amounts to about $2tn – or consequences for missing it The G20 nations will aim to increase global growth ...

Address by the Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies to the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), on the Special Economic Zones Bill 2013 18 February 2014 The Special Eco...

Kenya could lose more than other East African Community member states if the trade bloc does not sign a new Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union. The EU delegati...

China-Africa trade totaled more than $200 billion last year, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday, highlighting the Asian powerhouse’s burgeoning trade and investment ties ...

Remarks by Dr Rob Davies at the Centre for Conflict Studies Public Dialogue Cape Town, 17 February 2014 At the outset, let me thank the Centre for Conflict Studies and its Direct...

There has been a lot of talk about Africa’s rising economic prosperity and whether it is sustainable and deeply rooted in reducing extreme poverty across the continent. So, I sat...

Technical Officials from the East African Community (EAC) and the United States (U.S.) met 12 to 15 February 2014 in Bujumbura, Burundi to discuss Trade Africa and the EAC – U.S....

Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, in presenting his first global trade-monitoring report to WTO members on 17 February 2014, said that trade growth projections for this year are ...

In Africa, exports are booming and export markets have become more diversified. Foreign direct investments have increased by a factor of six over the past decade. Private entrepre...

India will collaborate with the four other BRICS countries in science and technology to generate new knowledge and develop innovative products, services and processes, critical to ...

The 11th Regional Meeting of the African Caribbean Pacific-European Union (ACP-EU) Joint Parliamentary Assembly has ended with delegates rallying for the harmonization and rat...

The push towards regional integration in eastern and southern Africa depends on a number of factors. One important factor is ensuring that small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are f...