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25 Apr 19 NewsAfrican trade policy events taking place today:
In Maseru: SACU Council of Ministers meeting
In Arusha: EABC-UNECA workshop on the role of the private sector in the AfCFTA
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10 Apr 19 NewsConcluding today, in Windhoek: UNCTAD regional capacity building training workshop on the use of statistics and the Productive Capacities Index to inform evidence-based policy-maki...
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04 Apr 19 NewsThe AfDB’s Regional Economic Outlook: the West Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa and East Africa regional reports have been launched
The IMF has posted the Analytical Cha...
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East Africa’s economy races ahead of its African peers, modest growth forecast for the rest of the continent – African Development Bank
04 Apr 19 NewsJob creation and ramping up manufacturing will continue to be major priority areas for creating growth, according to the African Development Bank Regional Economic Outlook Reports ...
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29 Mar 19 NewsA suite of AfCFTA updates:
Professor Benedict Oramah, Afreximbank President: 2019 Bullion Lecture, delivered earlier this week in Lagos on Leveraging the AfCFTA to B...
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South Sudan kicks off WTO membership negotiations
26 Mar 19 NewsAt the first meeting of the Working Party on the Accession of South Sudan on 21 March 2019, WTO members expressed support for working with the world’s youngest nation in order to...
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Trade Policy Review: East African Community (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda)
21 Mar 19 NewsThe third joint Trade Policy Review of the East African Community (EAC) takes place on 20 and 22 March, 2019 to provide clarification from the EAC members on its trade policies and...
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18 Mar 19 NewsUnderway, in Marrakech: Africa Regional Midterm Review Meeting of the Vienna Programme of Action for the Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014–2024
Starting tomorr...
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15 Mar 19 NewsDiarise: Canada Africa Business Conference (26-27 March, Gaborone)
Nigeria’s PEBEC launches innovative public service feedback, complaints platform to drive Ease of Doing Busine...
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13 Mar 19 NewsTrade policy pointers:
Cameroon will host an AfCFTA national sensitization, information forum in mid-April 2019: further details, here and here
Togo’s AfCFTA forum:&nbs...
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Bi-National Commission: South Africa reiterates support for new Zimbabwe
13 Mar 19 NewsPresident Cyril Ramaphosa has reiterated South Africa’s commitment to work with Zimbabwe in addressing the socio-economic challenges experienced by the two neighbouring countries...
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Export Diversification in Africa and Sustainable Growth
07 Mar 19 PublicationsLong-term growth is a necessary condition for developing countries to achieve developmental goals; however, being export-dependent for growth, this suggests that they need to devel...
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Final Declaration of the 2nd STC of the AU Ministers of Trade, Industry and Mineral Resources
06 Mar 19 NewsWE, the African Union (AU) Ministers of Trade, Industry and Minerals, meeting in our 2nd Ordinary Session of the Specialized Technical Committee of the Ministers of Trade, Industry...
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05 Mar 19 NewsFeatured tweet, @CelestinMonga: Sierra Leone ($500 income per capita) imports onions from the Netherlands, 7,000 kilometers away. Why? It takes more than one month to import fresh,...
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How will South Africa engage the Region, the Continent and the World?
01 Mar 19 BlogIn the African context, South Africa is a trading nation. What does the State of the Nation Address (SONA) 2019 say about South Africa’s trade policy? President Ramaphosa emphasi...
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22 Feb 19 NewsMarking two years since the TFA entered into force: An Update on the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement and African countries
This tralac Trade Brief gives an account of the current...
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14 Feb 19 NewsNegotiating African trade policy:
Event reminders
Expert meeting on Non-Tariff Barriers (NTB) Reporting, Monitoring and Elimination under the AfCFTA (concluded today in Nairo...
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Prospects for reforming/strengthening the WTO
14 Feb 19 BlogMedia coverage of the discussions at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos (which combined globalization issues with the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”) sketched a mixed and...
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AUC calls for a strong public-private collaboration in the mineral resources sector for the attainment of the AfCFTA
08 Feb 19 NewsThe Department of Trade and Industry of the African Union Commission (AUC) participated in the Mining Indaba 2019 from 4-7 February 2018 in Cape Town. The Mining Indaba is the...
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Using Intra-African Trade Scorecards to identify opportunities for increasing agricultural trade
05 Feb 19 NewsAcross the continent, African governments are taking steps to make agricultural trade freer. In June 2014, heads of state of African Union member countries issued a bold commitment...
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