Tag: SADC

Trade statistics for June 2023 (South African Revenue Service) South Africa recorded a preliminary trade balance deficit of R3.5 billion in June 2023. This deficit is attributable...

South Africa’s agricultural sector recorded significant decline in the first quarter (Engineering News) The Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP) has highlighted, in a ...

Rising global demand for South African vegetables (FreshPlaza) The National Agricultural Marketing Council hosted a workshop on South Africa’s fresh produce chain today in which...

The global drive towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the increased availability of green finance, and the associated ambitions of firms and governments to improve their envi...

Coming Soon: Online Platform for Trade in Services (COMESA) COMESA will soon launch an Online Platform for Trade in Services that will be used to facilitate speedy and efficient n...

Local news Overcoming financial exclusion in South Africa (Moneyweb) Financial inclusion is severely skewed in South Africa, with higher income groups having more access to a ran...

Local news Rebuilding economy tops leaders’ conference agenda (SAnews) Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana says the country’s economy faces an urgent need to rebuild infrastruc...

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) defines trade facilitation as “the simplification, modernisation and harmonisation of export and import processes.” In spite of the liberalis...

Local ICYMI: South Africa: Ministers are invisible bottleneck in customs duties decisions (The Africa Report) Companies seeking either relief on customs duties in the absence of ...

Local news The new EU rules for citrus imports from South Africa: Background, applicable legal texts and processes, and the dispute declared by South Africa under the rules of the...

Local news Government Publishes Policy Proposals on Measures to Address Scrap Metal Theft (the dtic) Government today published draft proposals to address widespread theft o...

Local News Arab-Spring Warning Spurs Ramaphosa to Tout Growth-Plan Progress (Bloomberg) South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said the government is making progress on a p...

Local news South African president urges stakeholders to examine progress in redressing racialized economy (Xinhua) South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday urged sta...

Local news Structural growth in South Africa to slow for the rest of this year (Engineering News) While South Africa's real gross domestic product (GDP) growth expanded...

The SADC – EU EPA is a comprehensive economic partnership agreement between the European Union and  South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Eswatini, and Mozambique. Angol...

Local news Ukraine-Russia conflict provides SA and Angolan Companies with opportunity to collaborate - Chamber President (the dtic) Both the South African and Angolan economies a...

Local news AfDB to lead Zim debt clearance roadmap (The Herald) African Development Bank (AfDB) president Dr Akinwumi Adesina has formally accepted President Mnangagwa’s reques...

Local news New EU food regulations could see many South African citrus consignments destroyed (Engineering News) New European Union (EU) regulations, which apply from July 14, re...