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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Tariro Chivige is a researcher at tralac. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics and has over a decade of experience in customs and excise administration, as well as economic research. Her areas of interest ...

According to Article 23 of the Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), entry into force occurs 30 days after the 22nd instrument of ratification is deposited with ...

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 ...

Trade data analysis and factsheetsTrading Under the AfCFTA – a Guide for Cameroon ...

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 ...

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, ...

Background The Heads and State of Government representing three regional economic communities (RECs) of the African Union – the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), East African ...

It should be noted that the Secretariat (or other AfCFTA institutions) will not be able to bring applications for the enforcement of the rules of the AfCFTA regime. Only the State Parties have ...

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 ...