Africa's tripartite free trade area set for launch in June The long-awaited tripartite free trade area (TFTA) between three regional blocs in Africa will be launched on June 10 in Egypt. The TFTA will brin... 11/05/2015
Maize value chain/Zimbabwe - Government Issues Interim Maize Import Permits A three month interim permit was issued by the Zimbabwe government in order to spice-up its grain reserve while approaching the harvesting 10/03/2015
Tripartite free trade area in Africa to launch in May: AU official A senior official of African Union (AU) said Tuesday the long-awaited tripartite free trade area between three regional blocs is expected to be lau... 10/03/2015
Approvals delay EAC double taxation law Uganda, Tanzania and Burundi are yet to secure internal approvals for the Double Taxation Agreement (DTA) to operate in East Africa, five years aft... 10/03/2015
Angola announces import quotas on food and non-food products The government of Angola plans to establish import quotas on food and non-food products, the national production of which accounts for at least 60... 28/01/2015
Submission on the need to activate the dispute settlement provisions of the SADC free trade area In the run-up to the SADC Summit in August 2014, Tralac – the South Africa-based Trade Law Centre – prepared a submission on the need for an effect... 07/12/2014
AGOA access for Swaziland and Madagascar reviewed In June 2014 the US government announced the reinstatement of Madagascar on the list of beneficiaries of the US African Growth and Opportunity Act... 17/08/2014
Ethiopia, Uganda and DRC commit to COMESA FTA In March 2014, Ethiopia and Uganda both announced that they were committed to depositing their instruments of access to the COMESA FTA with the COM... 03/08/2014
Tanzanian rice sector stakeholders call for consistent application of rice import tariffs According to reports in the Tanzanian press, private sector representatives have urged the Tanzanian government to establish a 25% import duty on r... 20/07/2014
ECOWAS CET will reduce many of Ghana’s agricultural tariffs A comparison in the latest WTO Trade Policy Review (TPR) of Ghana’s current tariffs with the agreed ECOWAS common external tariff (CET) shows that... 20/07/2014