Tag: World Trade Organisation

As trade talks in Geneva enter the final stretch, WTO negotiators have tabled new proposals on agriculture for the Buenos Aires ministerial that begins in just over two weeks. They...

It will now take a trader a maximum of 5 minutes to access summarised information on international trade procedures in Kenya Traders in Kenya stand to benefit from increased effic...

Communication from the African Group on the Work Programme on Electronic Commerce, submitted to the WTO General Council ahead of the upcoming 11th Ministerial Conference in Buenos ...

Updates on African trade policy processes from Amb. Albert Muchanga (AU Commissioner for Trade and Industry): The 8th CFTA Negotiating Forum to be held in Abuja next week will be f...

South African Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies, attended the National Consultative Forum in Midrand to prepare for the World Trade Organisation (WTO) 11th Ministerial ...

WTO members show restraint in trade restrictions despite ongoing economic uncertainties WTO members introduced fewer trade-restrictive measures from mid-October 2016 to mid-Octobe...

The European Commission has set out a renewed vision on how to help developing countries fight poverty and create more and better jobs through trade and investment. The updated ...

Close to 31% of the world’s marine fish stocks are now overexploited and depleted. Estimated at between US$ 20 to 35 billion per year, harmful subsidies compound the problem of o...

The WTO’s eighteenth monitoring report on Group of 20 (G20) trade measures, issued on 9 November 2017, shows that G20 economies introduced fewer trade-restrictive measures compar...

African trade and development policy events underway in Abuja: (i) Fourth Meeting of the Technical Working Groups of the Continental Free Trade Area (6-17 November). It will ...

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) may have celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2015 with an African-flavoured “Nairobi package”, but has the continent really benefited from cur...

Statement reaffirms that trade and investment are inseparable and remain indispensable “twin engines” for economic growth, modernization and development of Africa Nigeria, the...

A reminder: The Doing Business 2018 report was released today. Read more here. South Africa’s September trade statistics: another surplus (SARS) The R4bn trade balance surplus ...

Speaking at a Trade Dialogues conference on “Technology, Globalisation and World Trade Governance” on 30 October, Director-General Roberto Azevêdo highlighted the important ro...

A proposal to apportion existing European Union (EU) tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) between the United Kingdom (UK) and the remaining 27 countries of the EU post-Brexit has numerous exp...

AGOA Forum 2017: the report of the conference proceedings is published Underway, in Dar: 2nd phase of training on the Tariff Reform Impact Simulation Tool. [Details of an earlier ...

The first review of the trade policies and practices of the members of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) takes place on 25 and 27 October 2017. The basis for the...

Underway at the WTO: WAEMU’s Trade Policy Review (Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo) Global Investment Competitiveness Report 2017...

Report by Amb. Stephen Ndũn’gũ Karau, Chair of the Agriculture negotiations, to the meeting of the Committee on Agriculture in special session, 19 October 2017 Introducti...

Document prepared by the WTO Secretariat for the Formal Meeting of the Sub-Committee on Least-Developed Countries held on 3 October 2017, as revised Over the period 2005-2016...