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Building capacity to help Africa trade better

Tag: Regional integration

tralac Daily News

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16 Oct 23  News
President: South Africa derives great benefit from BRICS membership (SAnews) “Rest assured, BRICS is a great benefit to our country and it’s an association that we are very pr...
Value chains and industrialisation: what is the status of the AfCFTA RoO?

Value chains and industrialisation: what is the status of the AfCFTA RoO?

11 Oct 23  Publications
Rules of Origin (RoO) are the legal provisions and related criteria that are used to establish the nationality of traded goods. RoO that are used in non-preferential trade serve va...
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28 Sep 23  News
Dip in exports out east raises red flags for SA (Freight News) The importance of China in South African trade cannot be overstated, considering the country’s economic well-being...
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11 Sep 23  News
SA losing $62bn a year due to illicit financial flows (Moneyweb) South Africa is losing more than $62 billion a year because of illicit financial flows (IFFs), which could be used...
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31 Aug 23  News
SARS records R16 billion trade boost for South Africa (BusinessTech) South Africa saw a preliminary trade balance surplus of R16.0 billion in July 2023, data from the South Africa...
Can Africa speak with one voice on trade matters through the AfCFTA?

Can Africa speak with one voice on trade matters through the AfCFTA?

22 Aug 23  Publications
There are high expectations about what will happen once the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is fully operational. Some predict that intra-African trade in goods (and s...
What the AfCFTA Agreement establishes and what the State Parties should do

What the AfCFTA Agreement establishes and what the State Parties should do

13 Aug 23  Blog
A recent communication from the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat to the African Union (AU) Member States says that in order to facilitate the Guided Trade I...
Wars in Africa are bad for the AfCFTA

Wars in Africa are bad for the AfCFTA

13 Aug 23  Blog
The objectives of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) of boosting intra-African trade in goods and services and eventually “to create a single market for goods, serv...
AfCFTA Update, August 2023

AfCFTA Update, August 2023

13 Aug 23  Publications
The implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement may start soon. In this Update, we remind readers of what the legal instruments of the AfCFTA provi...
What is the Mandate of the AfCFTA? Is it changing?

What is the Mandate of the AfCFTA? Is it changing?

13 Aug 23  Blog
There is a provision in the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement which provides that: [the] Council of Ministers shall within its mandate take decisions in accor...
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11 Aug 23  News
Patel stresses importance of China-South Africa trade (Engineering News) Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Ebrahim Patel has welcomed the August 10 signing of trade and pur...
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25 Jul 23  News
R78.9m disbursed to citrus growers under the economic transformation programme (Engineering News) Over the past three years, more than R161.3-million in funding has been approved ...
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tralac Daily News

21 Jul 23  News
Demand aggregation, pricing clarity, standardisation needed to drive hydrogen infrastructure investment (Engineering News) Infrastructure is needed to enable the global energy tra...
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tralac Daily News

20 Jul 23  News
IMF Executive Board Concludes 2023 Article IV Consultation with Kingdom of Lesotho Lesotho’s economy continues to face a number of challenges in the wake of the pandemic. Climat...
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19 Jul 23  News
South Africa dare not fail in securing future demand for platinum (Engineering News) South Africa dare not fail in securing future demand for its “incredible” platinum group m...
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17 Jul 23  News
South Africa needs to embrace more 4IR technology or fall behind (Engineering News) Professional services and auditing firm PwC says that South Africa’s competitors are all adop...
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12 Jul 23  News
Exports surge to N$43 billion in five months (The Namibian) During the first five months of 2023, Namibia experienced a remarkable surge in exports, reaching an impressive va...
What have we learned from the AfCFTA Guided Trade Initiative?

What have we learned from the AfCFTA Guided Trade Initiative?

29 Jun 23  Publications
DOWNLOAD PUBLICATION During the 9th Meeting of the Council of Ministers held in July 2022, the Secretary General of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat, H...
Is the AfCFTA changing the gameplan for African integration?

Is the AfCFTA changing the gameplan for African integration?

27 Jun 23  Publications
There may be objections to the question posed in the title of this paper. Some may argue that the Abuja Treaty (adopted in 1991, before the World Trade Organisation was established...

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