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Kenya plans to relax rules for the production of industrial sugar in a bid to save the economy $90 million worth of forex spent annually on imports. Kenya wil...

Taking part in discussions on the latest developments in world trade at the World Trade Organization’s Public Forum in Geneva last week, the International Chamber of Commerce (IC...

AGOA, the African Growth and Opportunity Act, is one of the cornerstones of the U.S.-Africa economic relationship. A trade program that includes 41 African countries, AGOA was rene...

Results from a performance analysis study, conducted on three West African corridors – involving consultation with actors such as countries, customs, corridor management organisa...

The selection: Friday, 30 September 2016 Ahead of next week’s third CFTA Negotiating Forum: tralac’s JB Cronje on What negotiating modalities should be adopted to achieve CFTA...

The countries of Sub-Saharan Africa present a diversified landscape of economic growth, according to the new Africa’s Pulse, the World Bank’s twice-yearly analysis of economic ...

As the world prepares to adopt a new urban agenda for the next 20 years at the Habitat III United Nations conference in Quito next month, Africa’s mix of demographic boom and fas...

A new publication on regional trade agreements (RTAs) and how they can potentially affect rules of the WTO and its members was launched at the WTO on 29 September, Day 3 of the Pub...

Trade facilitation reforms improve a country’s trade competitiveness and the effectiveness of border agencies. In addition, they can directly help advance development goals such ...

The IRU report, “Transit costs in East and Southern Africa” clearly demonstrates how African countries implementing the TIR Convention can reduce the costs of trade in southern...

The selection: Thursday, 29 September 2016 Profiled tweets from the WTO Public Forum: @wto: For Liberia it is more expensive to trade with neighbours than with China, so trade fa...

The WTO launched a new publication entitled “African Perspectives on Trade and the WTO” on Day 2 of the Public Forum on 28 September 2016. The book – co-published by the WTO ...

The proposed Trade Facilitation in Services Agreement will address key issues such as transparency, streamlining procedures for facilitating trade in global services, India says I...

This is the First Edition of the East African Business Council (EABC) Business Agenda, themed on the critical role of private and public sectors in deepening the ongoing East Afric...

The European Commission’s plan for a multi-billion African investment vehicle was one of few highlights in Jean-Claude Juncker’s often turgid state of the Union speech earlier ...

The digital economy can create opportunities for inclusive trade but the right conditions must be in place for it to flourish, speakers at the WTO Public Forum stressed. Over 20 se...

Since 2000, the United States’ African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) has been a pillar of the U.S. trade policy towards Sub-Saharan Africa. It offers duty-free entry to over ...

Shri Bandaru Dattatreya, the Union Minister of State (IC) Labour and Employment met media persons after the BRICS Labour and Employment Ministerial Meeting that concluded in New De...

The selection: Wednesday, 28 September 2016 World Trade Report 2016: levelling the trading field for SMEs (WTO) The World Trade Report 2016 examines the participation of SMEs in ...

Reduced trade barriers, improved transportation links, information technology and the emergence of global value chains give small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) the potential ...