In the 2026 Budget, when allocations for agricultural infrastructure – such as irrigation, electricity, roads, mechanisation services and buffer stock – are combined, government spending on ...

A coalition of exporters, importers and traders has kicked against plans by the Ghana Shippers’ Authority (GSA) to make the Smart Port Note (SPN) mandatory from February 1, 2026, warning that the ...

The US House of Representatives has passed a three-year extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), offering a potential lifeline for the US’s flagship trade initiative with the ...

Maria Immanuel is an international trade expert and a tralac Alumna based in Windhoek, Namibia. She makes music and is a Digital trade entrepreneur.

SA–China trade gap widens as Chinese vehicle imports surge (EWN) Recent trade data shows vehicle imports from China rising sharply over the past year, as Chinese automakers expa ...

Alan Wm. Wolff is Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). He began his four-year term in this position on 1 October 2017. He was formerly Senior Counsel at the global law firm ...

Beatrice Chaytor is an international trade lawyer, called to the Bar in England and Wales as well as Sierra Leone, with over 30 years’ experience in providing advice and support to NGO’s, governments ...

On the same day he was inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States of America (on 20 January 2025) the White House published a Memorandum directed at the top federal institutions on the ...

Registration to the tralac website is required to download publications. In November 2023, following the conclusion of the annual AGOA Forum in South Africa, US ...

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) pdf Protocol on Women and Youth in Trade(201 KB) (the ‘Protocol’) aims to enhance the involvement of women and youth within the AfCFTA. It outlines ...

Registration to the tralac website is required to download publications. This paper discusses the Protocol on Women and Youth in Trade as the legal instrument adopted ...