Overall Singapore-Africa trade rose 50% to $13.72 billion in 2024 from $9.17 billion in 2020, after peaking at $14.46 billion in 2022. Trade with East Africa nearly doubled to $541 million in 2024 ...

This report reviews and sheds light on recent developments with AGOA renewal and evolving US trade and tariff policy with a focus on South Africa, which in early April 2025 was informed of a blanket ...

Kahaki Jere is a former tralac Intern, 2013. She is currently working with the Public Procurement and Disposal of Assets Authority in Malawi. She holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) focused in ...

The discovery and development of critical minerals in Africa is of course work in progress. However, it is heavily weighted in favour of Chinese mining and trading firms. Figures produced by the ...

Ramaphosa: We’re engaging with the US, but also exploring other export markets (Engineering News) With the threat of 30% tariffs on South African exports to the US looming from ...

However, the conference did produce an Outcome Document, supported at Seville by 192 members of the UN. It is a dense, at times opaque document, running to 38 pages consisting of 66 numbered ...

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, ...

tralac curates a selection of the latest news and analysis relating to trade and integration in Africa and internationally to enhance trade policy knowledge and information sharing.

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Background tralac launched its ‘Women in Trade Governance Network’ (‘SheGovernsTrade’) at its 2019 Annual Conference in Nairobi. Our program supports women working in trade policy and governance to ...

On April 2, a day he called “Liberation Day”, President Trump declared a national economic emergency because of the US’s deficits in trade in goods and announced “reciprocal tariffs” on goods imported ...

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