In April, the United States shook global trade norms by announcing sweeping tariffs. Given the complexity and fluidity of the moment, our April report offered a range of estimates for the growth ...

INDIGO-i: This dimension tracks non-trade-related international instruments, which include discussions and agreements on ...

The Lomé Declaration considers the G20 CF to be only a first step towards a more comprehensive approach to sovereign debt restructuring. But it bluntly points out that ‘it has not provided a pathway ...

The nation declared a state of disaster after being hit with a 15% tariff (initially close to 50%). With 45% of its exports destined for the US, the country is among the most vulnerable to the ...

SA companies relish prospects of exporting products to Europe (The Department of Trade Industry and Competition) The South African companies that are showcasing their products at the Anuga Food and ...

A postponement from incorporating indirect carbon emissions into the European Union’s (EU’s) calculation of a product’s embedded emissions under its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) will ...

Ethiopia will start trading under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) on Thursday, 9 October. At a press briefing in Addis Ababa, Yasmin Wohabrebbi, state minister for Trade and Regional ...

Ndiitah Nghipondoka-Robiati is Chief Executive Officer, Namibia Trade Forum. Before joining NTF in April 2014, she was a lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of ...

SA exporters pivot hard after loss of Agoa access (Food For Mzanzi) The African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) expired last month, ending 25 years of duty-free access for over ...

George Chikondi Lwanda is a regional programme and policy advisor with the UNDP Africa Centre, a 2018 Asia Global Fellow at the Asia Global Institute at the Hong Kong University, and an alum of the Mo ...

Beatrice Chaytor is an international trade lawyer, called to the Bar in England and Wales as well as Sierra Leone, with over 30 years’ experience in providing advice and support to NGO’s, governments ...

Making sense of America’s new tariff regime and implications for South Africa (tralac) An Executive Order late on 31 July brought a measure of certainty to the fast-paced and co... An Executive Order ...