Tag: Trade Data
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...
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 ...