Tag: Trade facilitation
Trade facilitation performance in Africa
03 Jul 18 InfographicsTrade facilitation (TF) refers to measures taken by a sovereign nation and its agencies to remove or ameliorate hindrances to cross-border trade of goods and services. In the Afric...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
27 Jun 18 NewsA reminder: The Southern African Structured Trade Seminar is underway in Livingstone. For Twitter updates: #SAST2018
WTO’s Trade Facilitation Agreement: update
“Almost 85% of...
WTO members take stock of progress on implementing Trade Facilitation Agreement
27 Jun 18 News“Almost 85 per cent of WTO members have now completed their domestic ratification processes. This is great progress, but of course there is more to do,” DG Azevêdo said at the...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
26 Jun 18 NewsNext month’s BRICS Summit: preview by Standard Bank’s Jeremy Stevens
South Africa will host the 10th annual summit of the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa group. ...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
19 Jun 18 NewsAfrican trade and regional integration event listings:
(i) Underway, in Nairobi: AU experts meeting on the Services Sector Development Programme. The UNECA’s Jamie Macleod: “K...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
18 Jun 18 NewsProfiled African trade and regional integration events:
(I) The 24th ARSO General Assembly starts today in Durban on the theme: One Africa One Market – the role of standard...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
13 Jun 18 NewsThe second African Transformation Forum takes place next week in Accra. Access the conference agenda here.
UNCTAD convenes an expert meeting on statistical methodologies for measu...
Africa’s railway renaissance needs public-private partnerships
13 Jun 18 NewsExperts from Africa’s rail sector gathered this week in Johannesburg to discuss rail transport and how it can be developed to support the grand design for growth on the cont...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
07 Jun 18 NewsUNCTAD: World Investment Report 2018
Developed economies saw the biggest drop in FDI flows in 2017 – at 37%, to $712bn – but this was to some extent expected, after a spike in...
Kenya: 20 companies registered to import consolidated cargo
07 Jun 18 NewsThe Kenya Bureau of Standards (Kebs) has cleared 20 firms to bring in goods as consolidated cargo in a move expected to streamline importation of goods by small traders.
Clearing ...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
01 Jun 18 NewsAfrica, global passenger traffic data for April 2018 (IATA)
African airlines’ had a 5.1% traffic increase in April. Capacity rose 4.6%, and load factor edged up 0.4 percentage p...
Trade Facilitation in Africa: Progress, Performance and Potential
30 May 18 PublicationsTrade facilitation refers to measures taken by a sovereign nation and its agencies to remove or ameliorate hindrances to cross-border trade of goods and services. In the African co...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
29 May 18 NewsAfCFTA presentations by ATPC’s David Luke to recent Canada-Africa Chamber of Business events (Toronto, Ottawa)
(i) What the African Continental Free Trade Area means for Africa ...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
25 May 18 NewsDiarise: The private sector and regional integration in Southern Africa – accelerating opportunities for investment and growth (11-13 June, Lilongwe)
Selected commentaries:
Pie...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
24 May 18 NewsAfrican Development Bank (AfDB) updates, from Busan: Annual Report 2017, Annual Development Effectiveness Reviews 2018, Annual Meetings documentation
A reminder: Meetings of senio...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
22 May 18 NewsThe 53rd Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank opened yesterday in Busan. AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina: Korea is a model for Africa’s industrialization
Underway, in...
Ministers from landlocked developing countries call for improved trade, transport and economic opportunities
22 May 18 NewsAchieving the SDGs in Landlocked Developing Countries through Connectivity and Trade Facilitation
Ministers and senior government officials from landlocked developing countries (L...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
17 May 18 NewsDiarise: Moving forward with the implementation of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area – opportunities and challenges (24 May, Wilson Center, Washington). The speakers: D...
Kenya: Import cargo set for 100% inspection in fake goods war
17 May 18 NewsAll consolidated import cargo will be fully inspected to weed out counterfeit, contraband and substandard goods, the government has announced.
In a statement on Thursday, Industri...
Ethiopia Economic Update: The inescapable manufacturing-services nexus
16 May 18 NewsServices & Manufacturing Linkages: Exploring the Potential of Distribution Services
This Ethiopia Economic Update focuses on the connection between services and manufacturing,...