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South Africa should further enhance its institutional capacity and efforts to fight foreign bribery as it emerges from state capture (OECD) South Africa has made progress in detecting and ...

Aligning consumer protection with selected multilateral environmental agreements (UN Trade and Development) Sustainable consumption and production (SCP) are central to addressing the triple planetary ...

Minister Tau Tables his 2025 – 2026 Budget Vote 39 (The Department of Trade Industry and Competition) Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, Mr Parks Tau, says the department is driving a R700 ...

Kenya drops visa requirements for African Nations, boosting intra-continental trade (The Herald) Kenya has removed visa requirements for all African and most Caribbean nations, as ...

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 ...

South Africa’s illicit trade crisis: Tobacco, alcohol, and fashion industries under siege (IOL) Illicit trading has emerged as one of the most pressing issues facing South Afric ...

Trudi Hartzenberg is the Executive Director of tralac. She has a special interest in trade-related capacity building. Her research areas include trade policy issues, regional integration, investment, ...

Introduction of tariffs timeline Below is a timeline of developments in the introduction of President Trump's new tariff policy, following his declaration of "a national emergency arising from ...

For African countries working to improve their trade regimes, this case offers a practical roadmap: decentralize where feasible, build capacity at the front lines, and treat regulatory efficiency as a ...

As the drive to achieve net zero intensifies, the demand for critical minerals, essential inputs in many low-carbon technologies, is expected to grow exponentially. The global energy transition ...

One of the important protocols forming part of the set of agreements within the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is the Digital Trade Protocol (‘the Protocol’). This protocol has the very ...