Tag: SACU
Namibia: intra-Africa trade and tariff profile 2020
23 Apr 21 InfographicsIn 2020, 33% of Namibia’s world exports and 67% of world imports were to and from the rest of Africa. Between 2019 and 2020, Namibia’s intra-Africa exports declined by 24% and ...
Lesotho: 2019 intra-Africa trade and tariff profile
23 Nov 20 InfographicsWhile only 39 per cent of Lesotho’s world exports are destined for the rest of Africa, 78 per cent of world imports are sourced from other African countries; all most all with ne...
SACU trade 2019
23 Nov 20 BlogThe Southern African Customs Union (SACU), comprising Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa, is a customs union (CU) with duty-free[1] intra-SACU trade and a common...
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23 Sep 20 NewsNational news
Retail trade confidence edged up in Q3 – Bureau for Economic Research (Business Report)
The Bureau for Economic Research (BER) on Monday said that retail trade co...
SACU Secretariat hosts 4th Ministerial Retreat
23 Sep 20 NewsSouth Africa’s Minister of Finance, Mr Tito Mboweni, chaired the 4th joint Finance and Trade Ministers’ virtual Ministerial Retreat meeting on 21 September 2020. The Ministers ...
SACU Ministers of Trade and Industry hold virtual meeting on the AfCFTA
02 Sep 20 NewsOpening Remarks by Ebrahim Patel, Chairperson of the SACU Ministers of Trade and Industry and Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, South Africa
The objective of this Meeti...
The Looming Brexit Cliff – What it means for South Africa and for SACU
21 Jul 20 BlogOn 30 June 2020, the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Union (EU) passed a final threshold. Although the UK formally left the EU on 31 January in terms of the Withdrawal Agreeme...
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17 Jul 20 NewsThe Seychelles cabinet this week approved the AfCFTA draft initial offer for Seychelles under the Protocol for Trade in Services
African Medicines Agency update: Burkina Faso beca...
African Continental Free Trade Area negotiations: WHO is negotiating with WHOM? SACU and the EAC
26 Jun 20 InfographicsSouthern African Customs Union (SACU)
SACU is a customs union with a common external tariff applicable to imports from outside the common customs area irrespective of the destinat...
SARS releases merchandise trade statistics for April 2020
29 May 20 NewsThe South African Revenue Service (SARS) today released trade statistics for April 2020 recording a trade deficit of R35.02 billion. These statistics include trade data with Botswa...
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30 Apr 20 NewsAfrican leaders mull 2021 as AfCTA’s new take-off date (This Day)
The Secretary-General of the AfCFTA Secretariat, Mr Wamkele Mene, spoke during a webinar on the “Political ec...
Trends in South Africa’s Tariff and Trade Remedy Investigations
03 Feb 20 PublicationsTariff, trade remedy and safeguard investigations in South Africa are undertaken by the International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC), which is responsible for the administr...
Enhancing benefits of market and financial integration in SACU: some policy options
13 Dec 19 PublicationsThis Working Paper provides some policy options confronting members of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) and the Common Monetary Area (CMA) arrangements, which are closely ...
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25 Sep 19 NewsTributes continue to pour in following the death of Nigeria's chief trade negotiator and one of the AfCFTA's architects, Ambassador Chiedu Osakwe. A selection:
(i) Dav...
The SACU Institutions that never were
13 Sep 19 BlogThe Southern African Customs Union (SACU) is a customs union (CU) and is in operation since 1910. It has a single customs territory and a Common External Tariff (CET). SACU is also...
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30 Jul 19 NewsSACU’s reforms in shreds (Southern Times)
Namibia’s Finance Minister Calle Schlettwein, who last week became the chairperson of the SACU Council of Minister, admitted to The S...
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22 Jul 19 NewsAfCFTA ratification update, from @ch_nji: “It’s done, Cameroon has ratified the AfCFTA today, 19 July 2019. Instrument of ratification to be deposited with the depository in th...
The first Dispute under the SADC EPA has been declared
12 Jul 19 PublicationsWhen the SADC EU Economic Partnership Agreement (SADC EPA) between the European Union (EU) and the Member States of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) and Mozambique was con...
When is a levy not a tax? A guideline from Namibia
11 Jul 19 BlogIn the electronic communications industry the stakes are high. It is a lucrative world, complex and indispensable. If unregulated, things could easily get out of hand. Since it kno...
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08 Jul 19 NewsA comprehensive set of AfCFTA updates:
The operational phase of the African Continental Free Trade Area was launched yesterday after a day-long summit of Heads of State and Govern...