The Extraordinary Session of the Council of Ministers of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on the contingency plan and modalities on the withdrawal of Burkina Faso, Republics of ...

This trade brief examines the utilisation of tariff rate quotas (TRQs) under the EU-SADC Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) in 2024. This trade agreement between the European Union (EU) on the one ...

Parties involved in Guinea’s giant Simandou iron-ore mine, widely regarded as the biggest current mining project in the world, expect production to start late this year. This is a considerable ...

But the transaction cost of remittances to African countries remain higher than any other region. Although costs are coming down, they are doing so slowly and it is almost certain that the 2015 United ...

The 2025 tralac Annual Conference is taking place 15-16 May in Nairobi, Kenya.

The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment’s National Web-Based Environmental Screening Tool is now fully operational. This was announced on Thursday by Forestry, Fisheries and the ...

Despite US President Donald Trump reversing 30% tariffs on South African exports, Washington’s trade war with China will likely spill over to the rest of the world, and billions of rands worth of ...

Botswana has lifted its ban on fresh vegetable imports from South Africa after it struggled to meet local demand solely from domestic production. The ban, imposed in 2022, was lifted in two phases — ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday that trade between countries must remain “free, predictable and governed by a rules-based system”, particularly for developing economies, many of which he said ...

On 20 January 2025, after his inauguration as the 47th President of the US, Donald Trump issued just over 200 Executive Orders. They dealt mainly with measures to undo the policies of his predecessor ...

Fractures within the South African government — along with global macroeconomic uncertainty — are weighing on dealmaking activity in the continent’s largest economy, according to one of the country’s ...

Under the framework of the EU-WCO Rules of Origin Africa Programme, funded by the European Union, the World Customs Organization, in partnership with Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA), held an ...