Tag: Trade Data
Burundi’s intra-Africa trade and tariff profile for 2020
19 Nov 21 InfographicsIn 2020, 38% of Burundi’s world exports were to the rest of Africa. Burundi’s main African export markets are DRC, Tanzania and Sudan, which accounted for about 75% of total ex...
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11 Nov 21 NewsDomestic trade news
Imports and exports feel effects of global disruption (Business Day)
Supply chain disruptions are having an impact globally with bottlenecks affecting manufac...
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04 Nov 21 NewsNational
Trade Statistics for September 2021 (South African Revenue Service)
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) today releases trade statistics for September 2021 reco...
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01 Sep 21 NewsNational
Trade balance remains in surplus while exports take a knock after July unrest (Daily Maverick)
South Africa recorded a trade surplus in July of R36.9bn, down from a revi...
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24 Aug 21 NewsNational
New transport initiative aims to empower almost a thousand women (Engineering News)
A new initiative championed by the Commercial Transport Academy (CTA) will aim to emp...
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23 Aug 21 NewsNational
SA agri posts trade surplus in Q2 despite ongoing Covid challenges (Bizcommunity)
The results of both the first and second quarter of 2021 agriculture export performance...
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16 Aug 21 NewsNational
SA needs to up its export game, if it’s going to grow - economist | Fin24
As SA focuses on localisation strategies, it should make sure protection measures do not hamp...
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11 Aug 21 NewsNational
dtic announces economic recovery support interventions (SAnews)
The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (dtic) has announced that the economic recovery support...
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05 Aug 21 NewsNational
Business seeks to nudge localisation debate beyond import substitution (Engineering News)
Business is aiming to progress ongoing negotiations on the use of local-content...
tralac Training Week 2021: Introduction to Data Science e-Learning Course
02 Aug 21 EventIn order to help trade analysts and economists come up to speed with the new technology, tralac is offering a one-week introductory e-Learning course to the techniques and methods ...
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29 Jul 21 NewsNational
SA economy to recover to pre-COVID levels in 2023 (SAnews)
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni says the National Treasury now predicts that the South African economy will retu...
Democratic Republic of the Congo: intra-Africa trade and tariff profile 2020
26 Jul 21 InfographicsIn 2020, 34% of DRC’s world exports and 20% of world imports were intra-Africa. Between 2019 and 2020, DRC’s exports to Africa declined by 30%, and imports by 23%. DRC’s intr...
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13 Jul 21 NewsNational
Manufacturing output up 35% y/y in May (Engineering News)
Manufacturing output increased by 35.3% year-on-year in May, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reports. The la...
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11 Jul 21 NewsNational
Sars, Busa form economic operator stakeholder group to improve border management (Engineering News)
The South African Revenue Service (Sars) and business advocacy organi...
Ethiopia: Intra-Africa trade and tariff profile
06 Jul 21 InfographicsIn 2020, 21% of Ethiopia’s world exports and 6% of world imports were intra-Africa. Between 2019 and 2020, Ethiopia’s exports to Africa declined by 6%, and imports by 5%.
Ethi...
Gambia: intra-Africa trade and tariff profile 2020
06 Jul 21 InfographicsIn 2020, 86% of Gambia’s world exports and 20% of world imports were intra-Africa. Between 2019 and 2020, Gambia’s intra-Africa exports increased by 26%, and imports by 2%.
Ga...
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25 Jun 21 NewsNational
Attaining port efficiency requires purpose rethink, says law firm (Engineering News)
South Africa’s maritime ports, known to be highly inefficient, need to be repurpos...
The role of institutional arrangements in the compilation of international merchandise trade and related statistics in Africa
22 Jun 21 BlogInternational merchandise trade statistics (IMTS) record the goods crossing a country’s border, either into or out of the country. IMTS measures quantities and values of goods (i...
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22 Jun 21 NewsNational
Lemon export protocol to boost investment, create jobs (Engineering News)
The recent signing of a revised citrus protocol between South Africa and China by Agriculture, ...
COVID-19 slashes foreign direct investment in Africa by 16%
22 Jun 21 NewsThe continent’s commodity-dependent countries have been affected more severely than non-resource-based economies
The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on foreign direct...