Tag: AfCFTA

BRICS: SA-China trade is nothing unfair, says SA Chamber of Commerce (IOL) South Africa should improve its industrialisation and manufacturing capacity in a bid to balance the tra...

This trade brief explores the potential for AfCFTA-enabled regional value chain (RVC) development for Algeria, a North African country with significant value chain links with Europ...

Economists see South Africa averting second-quarter contraction (Engineering News) South Africa’s economy probably avoided a contraction in the second quarter, despite record po...

A recent communication from the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat to the African Union (AU) Member States says that in order to facilitate the Guided Trade I...

The objectives of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) of boosting intra-African trade in goods and services and eventually “to create a single market for goods, serv...

The implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement may start soon. In this Update, we remind readers of what the legal instruments of the AfCFTA provi...

There is a provision in the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement which provides that: [the] Council of Ministers shall within its mandate take decisions in accor...

Patel stresses importance of China-South Africa trade (Engineering News) Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Ebrahim Patel has welcomed the August 10 signing of trade and pur...

Agro-processing Master Plan will help SA sow AfCFTA benefits (IOL) Targeted Spatial Agricultural development in South Africa: operationalising the Agriculture and Agroprocessing M...

South African farmers want WTO dispute declared over EU citrus rules (Engineering News) South African citrus farmers want their government to lodge a complaint against the Europea...

Global demand for coal is bringing mayhem to South African towns (Engineering News) An often impenetrable logjam of trucks laden with coal at South Africa’s crossing with Mozamb...

Trade statistics for June 2023 (South African Revenue Service) South Africa recorded a preliminary trade balance deficit of R3.5 billion in June 2023. This deficit is attributable...

This trade brief explores the potential for AfCFTA-enabled regional value chain (RVC) development for Mauritania, a North African country but one that has moderate trade and value ...

R78.9m disbursed to citrus growers under the economic transformation programme (Engineering News) Over the past three years, more than R161.3-million in funding has been approved ...

Duty-free maize imports plan flops on costly supplies (Business Daily) Kenya’s plan to import about 900,000 tonnes of white maize by next month has run into headwinds on costly ...

Demand aggregation, pricing clarity, standardisation needed to drive hydrogen infrastructure investment (Engineering News) Infrastructure is needed to enable the global energy tra...

Algeria is classified as a lower-middle-income country, with a real gross domestic product (GDP) in purchasing power parity (PPP) of $488 billion and a GDP per capita (in dollars c...

South Africa dare not fail in securing future demand for platinum (Engineering News) South Africa dare not fail in securing future demand for its “incredible” platinum group m...

Tunisia on July 17 exported its first shipment of resin to Cameroon under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), announced the Export Promotion Centre (CEPEX). Customs ...

This Trade Brief gives a snapshot overview of Algeria’s global economic and trading environment. It is accompanied by an infographic highlighting key economic and trade indicator...