Tag: SADC
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06 Jun 18 NewsConcluding today, in Addis: Expert group meeting on the theme Poverty, inequality and jobs in Africa
Diarise: 25th SWIFT African Regional Conference (20-22 June, Kigali) on the th...
AUC, Sweden and UNDP partner to speed up action on continent’s legal agreements to boost development
25 May 18 NewsThe African Union Commission (AUC), Sweden, and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have joined efforts to boost the number of African countries signing up to and adopting ...
COMESA-EAC-SADC Immigration Chiefs discuss free movement
25 May 18 NewsChiefs of Immigration departments from the COMESA, EAC and SADC regions held a two-day meeting in Nairobi this week to discuss ways of introducing free movement of business persons...
South African Government Communications on approved agreement to establish Tripartite Free Trade Area
11 May 18 NewsSADC Statement
At its meeting at Tuynhuys in Cape Town on Wednesday, 9 May 2018, Cabinet approved the agreement establishing the Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) between the Comm...
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10 May 18 NewsFrom tralac’s recent high-level dialogue on SACU: the workshop report (pdf). Discussions centred on SACU revenue sharing, SACU’s external relations, and the future of SACU. Upd...
India-South Africa Business Summit 2018: “United by Legacy, Unified for Prosperity”
02 May 18 NewsThe much anticipated India-South Africa Business Summit 2018 (ISABS 2018) concluded on 30 April 2018 at the Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg with a session on ‘India ...
More currencies to be introduced to the SADC regional payment system
26 Apr 18 NewsThe introduction of the United States dollar as a trading currency on the southern African regional payment system is expected to improve the settlement of transactions among banks...
Exploring Malawi’s export potential
19 Apr 18 NewsRegional integration is the key to Malawi’s trade success, according to a new ITC report that uncovers the country’s greatest untapped export potential in agro-processing.
Thi...
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18 Apr 18 NewsNext week, in Libreville, Gabon: Building Africa’s negotiating capacity for improved terms of engagement with the rest of the world (23-27 April)
Africa’s Pulse: Boosting acce...
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13 Apr 18 NewsAfrican ports: Strengthening Africa’s gateways to trade (PwC)
This report was compiled by PwC’s Capital Projects and Infrastructure Transport and Logistics team using a combin...
Regional industry protocol on the cards for SADC
13 Apr 18 NewsThe SADC Secretariat is developing a legal instrument that will improve the policy environment for industrial development and support implementation.
The development of a regional...
Tripartite Free Trade Agreement to be tabled before Parliament
29 Mar 18 NewsInternational Relations and Cooperation Deputy Minister Luwellyn Landers says government is in the process of submitting documentation and the Tripartite Free Trade Area Agreement ...
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26 Mar 18 NewsAfrican trade policy events starting today:
In Abidjan: Africa CEO forum; In Nairobi: Regional meeting on SPS collaboration, leasing and coordination in Eastern and Southern Afric...
SADC Council of Ministers’ meeting underway
26 Mar 18 NewsThe Southern African Development Community (SADC) Council of Ministers’ two-day meeting kicked off in Tshwane this morning with a call for increased focus on industrialisation.
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Post-AfCFTA negotiations slated for May – AU official
26 Mar 18 NewsNegotiating teams from countries that last week signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) deal will spend the first ten days of May in Addis Ababa to iron out outstan...
SADC EPA TRQ Utilisation Update and opportunities under SADC EPA
15 Mar 18 DiscussionTaku Fundira, tralac Associate, discusses tariff rate quotas under the SADC-EU Economic Partnership Agreement
November 1, 2016, marked a new era in the European Union (EU)’s tra...
Informal cross-border trading – review of the simplified trade regimes in east and southern Africa
08 Mar 18 PublicationsThis Trade Brief presents a discussion of the importance of Informal Cross-Border Trading (ICBT) for socio-economic development in the east and southern Africa region. Althoug...
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08 Mar 18 NewsToday’s tralac daily news selection marks International Women’s Day 2018: enjoy our compilation of commentaries, data sources, event pointers
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Namibia’s Mrs Sabine Bö...
Are the Brexit options for retaining SADC-EPA Benefits becoming clearer?
08 Mar 18 BlogBrexit will arrive in about one year from now, at the end of March 2019. There have been many statements and “clarifications” but official negotiations about how the European U...
Southern Africa Trust launches report on women traders and farmers in SADC
08 Mar 18 NewsThe experiences and challenges of women in the SADC region: The case of trade and agriculture sectors
Women play a key role in the trade and agriculture in the Southern African De...