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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The Council of Ministers of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) has decided to undertake a review of the AfCFTA Agreement. It is not yet known how this review will be undertaken but the ...

Background In 2012, the African Union (AU) decided to establish a continent-wide Free Trade Area. The negotiations to adopt the required international agreement began in 2015. All Members of the AU ...

The tralac 2025 Annual Conference, held under the theme “Advancing African Integration in a Fragmenting Global Trade Order”, took place on 15-16 May 2025 in Nairobi, Kenya. The conference brought ...

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