BCG report shows strategic importance of Africa in global supply chains (Engineering News) Africa, and other Global South nations, is growing its strategic importance in securing global supply chains, ...

South African poultry producers can make up shortage from Brazil bird flu import ban, association says (Engineering News) South African poultry producers have the capacity to make up for the loss of ...

The African Development Bank Group’s Regional Development and Business Delivery Office for Southern Africa last week brought together more than 30 key service providers to strengthen collaboration and ...

The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) – the United States’ flagship trade preference program aimed at transitioning the US relationship with Africa from aid-based to trade-based – celebrates ...

The Bretton Woods institutions, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group (WBG), appeared to have dodged a bullet at the annual Spring meeting held in Washington in April. There had ...

Registration to the tralac website is required to download publications. This trade brief examines the utilisation of tariff rate quotas (TRQs) under the EU-SADC ...

African economic integration has a long history. Both the African Union (AU) and its predecessor, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was Africa’s first post-independence continental ...

The Digital Trade Protocol (‘the Protocol’) of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is a document intended to define the environment for digital trade between members of the African Union ...

Apart from Annexes dealing with customs administration and border governance issues, the AfCFTA Agreement does not mention infrastructural development explicitly as one of its objectives. However, the ...

Registration to the tralac website is required to download publications. The AfCFTA has become the focal point of discussions about a wide range of matters, including ...