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 ...

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 ...

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

4th International Finance for Development Conference LIVE: World leaders in Sevilla launch ambitious push to finance the future (UN News) Sevilla: Morocco advocates new global financing approaches ...

The Trade Law Centre (tralac), a trade-related capacity building organisation based in South Africa, has received core funding support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency ...

Media Statement: Committee on Trade, Industry and Competition Briefed on the Implementation of Steel and Metal Fabrication Master Plan (Parliament South Africa) The Portfolio Committee on Trade, ...

Mining is expected to be a major driver of Africa’s development for the next few years. However, in many African jurisdictions, the industry is far from stable and needs to perform a complicated ...

This trade brief examines the utilisation of tariff rate quotas (TRQs) under the EU-SADC Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) in 2024. This trade agreement between the European Union (EU) on the one ...

The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is set to expire in less than seven months: at the end of September 2025, marking 25 years of deepening political and economic relations during which time ...

In this Trade Report, we review selected prospective trends, challenges and developments which, in 2025, will shape the agendas of international organisations and of governments, including in Africa.

In this Trade Brief we discuss some key developments and events (some quite recent) which we believe put the year in perspective and will continue to shape the global and African agendas. During the ...