Tag: Trade Data
Botswana: intra-Africa trade and tariff profile 2020
21 Jun 21 InfographicsIn 2020, 17% of Botswana’s world exports and 68% of world imports were intra-Africa. Between 2019 and 2020, Botswana’s exports to Africa declined by 3%, and imports from Africa...
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15 Jun 21 NewsNational
SA on track to harvest record soya bean crop (Farmer’s Weekly)
The current spike in soya bean production is good news for South Africa since it will mean that signific...
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10 Jun 21 NewsNational
SA making efforts to improve ease of doing business (SAnews)
South African cities are making efforts to improve the ease of doing business, although the pace of reforms ...
Zimbabwe: intra-Africa trade and tariff profile 2020
04 Jun 21 InfographicsIn 2020, 55% of Zimbabwe’s world exports and 60% of world imports were intra-Africa. Between 2019 and 2020, Zimbabwe’s exports to Africa declined by 8%, and imports increased b...
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03 Jun 21 NewsNational
Report shows tax shrunk the sugar industry, says association (Engineering News)
A report, commissioned by the National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac) a...
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01 Jun 21 NewsNational
South Africa’s trade surplus remains robust, underpinned by commodity prices (Daily Maverick)
South Africa’s trade surplus remains among the few bright spots in an e...
South Africa: trade update 2020
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Launch of eTradeHubs to simplify trade processes for woman small business owners in AfCFTA (International Chamber of Commerce)
The Women Traders in the African Cont...
Services Trade Restrictiveness and Services Trade: Making Sense of Inter-Decade Movements
28 May 21 PublicationsThis paper investigates movements in services trade restrictions and their impacts on services trade over an eight-year period (2008-2016). It utilises the latest, most globally in...
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26 May 21 NewsNational
Africa Intra-continental Trade: SA exporters must be supported now (The South African)
KwaZulu-Natal’s (KZN) small businesses must be supported to take advantage of Th...
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24 May 21 NewsNational
Trade policy seeks to build SA’s industrial capacity (IOL)
The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (dtic) has released a Trade Policy Statement, which seeks ...
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19 May 21 NewsNational
Government Outlines Bold Steps to Grow Industrial Output and Support Greater Economic Inclusion (the dtic)
A bold set of actions to grow industrial output and support gr...
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10 May 21 NewsNational trade and trade-related news
Parly committee accused of trying to rush through ‘defective’ copyright bill for political reasons (News24)
An organisation representing...
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03 May 21 NewsNational trade and trade-related news
South Africa’s trade surplus grows to $3.67 billion in March (Reuters)
South Africa recorded its largest trade surplus on record in March,...
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23 Apr 21 NewsNational trade and trade-related news
Anglo American reports rise in Q1 production of key South African commodities (Daily Maverick)
According to Anglo American’s production re...
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 ...
São Tomé and Príncipe in the times of COVID-19
19 Apr 21 PublicationsThe COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing lockdowns, which have restricted the movement of people and lowered economic activity, has had a significantly negative impact on global econo...
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14 Apr 21 NewsNational trade and trade-related news
South Africa garment sector agrees vaccine rollout campaign (just-style)
The Southern African Clothing & Textile Workers’ Union (SACTW...
The Automotive Components Trade in Africa: Its Place and Potential (2021 Update)
31 Mar 21 PublicationsAt present, Africa is largely dependent on the rest of the world for automotive component imports, with the exception of the contribution of South Africa. In order to reduce depend...
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17 Mar 21 NewsCountry focus
South African logistics industry battles to regain momentum (Sea News)
While there has been a slight uptick in domestic and international cargo traffic in recent we...