Tag: US-Africa relations
What could the Biden victory mean for Africa?
11 Nov 20 BlogThe Biden administration will have many urgent matters in its in-tray. Relations with specific foreign governments might not be at the top of that stack, but the departure of Presi...
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11 Nov 20 NewsNational
Agri sector predicted to show positive growth (IOL)
Although the agriculture sector was expected to show positive growth next year, the Agribusiness Business Chamber (Ag...
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09 Nov 20 NewsNational
Critical shortage of building and construction materials in SA (Moneyweb)
Critical shortages of building and construction materials, including cement, steel, bricks and ...
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06 Nov 20 NewsNational
DTIC reiterates importance of quality standards in South Africa (Engineering News)
The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC) has reiterated the importance...
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05 Nov 20 NewsNational
WWF launches plastics report, encourages deeper collaboration to end pollution (Engineering News)
All actors in the plastics value chain have a role to play in dealing w...
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04 Nov 20 NewsNational
Cheap imports sour SA’s sweet silver lining (IOL)
When President Cyril Ramaphosa, presenting the government’s Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan to Parliament...
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02 Nov 20 NewsNational
Trade stats shows domestic recession keeps imports low (Fin24)
A recovery in commodity prices and global demand saw SA record a trade surplus of R109.5 billion for the t...
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29 Oct 20 NewsNational
South Africa’s 2020 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) (National Treasury)
Two weeks ago, President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa laid out the government’s conse...
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28 Oct 20 NewsNational
SACUM-UK EPA and SA-US Trade Relations, including AGOA (the dtic)
The United Kingdom (UK) is South Africa’s 5th largest trading partner with total trade amounting to R...
SACUM-UK EPA and SA-US Trade Relations, including AGOA
28 Oct 20 NewsPresentation by Ambassador Xavier Carim, Deputy Director General, Trade Policy, Negotiations and Cooperation Branch at the dtic, to the Select Committee on Trade and Industry, Econ...
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26 Oct 20 NewsNational
SA Government Commits to Strengthening Economic Ties with the Middle East (dtic)
The South African government is committed to strengthening bilateral economic relations ...
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19 Oct 20 NewsNational
Job creation is key to SA’s economic recovery (SAnews)
As the country recovers from the devastation of the Coronavirus pandemic, President Cyril Ramaphosa has emphasis...
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16 Oct 20 NewsNational
SA recovery plan to improve economic growth (SAnews)
South Africa’s new Reconstruction and Recovery Plan should help unlock greater job creation and faster economic gr...
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11 Sep 20 NewsNational news
A Strengthened Partnership for Post-COVID-19 Economic Recovery (US Embassy in South Africa)
The Department of International Relations and Cooperation hosted the 11t...
How Trade Arrangements such as AGOA can drive Industrialisation in Less Developed Africa
03 Sep 20 BlogThe African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is an act of the United States Congress, passed in 2000 and with the purpose of granting qualifying sub-Saharan African (SSA) countrie...
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24 Jul 20 NewsKenya’s Ministry of Industrialization, Trade and Enterprise Development posts a call for consultants to provide technical assistance towards the negotiations for the proposed FTA...
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13 Jul 20 NewsThe Journal of African Trade has posted a call for papers for a forthcoming special issue: The AfCFTA and African trade. This special issue aims to provide a timely collection of a...
South Africa and the United States Generalised System of Preferences Country Practice Review: What implications for preferential access to the US market?
06 Jul 20 PublicationsOne of the early and notable achievements of the United Nations Conference for Trade and Development (UNCTAD), established in 1964, was to conceive the Generalised System of Prefer...
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26 Jun 20 NewsA tralac Special Feature on the Corporate Council on Africa’s inaugural Leaders Forum, Resilient US-Africa business engagement to drive post COVID-19 recovery, which concludes to...
COVID-19: Africa and the United States to remain key partners, says President Kagame
26 Jun 20 NewsOn Tuesday, June 23, 2020, Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) launched its inaugural Leaders Forum – a high level virtual forum to bring together Heads of State, senior USG and Af...