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.

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. The editor of a well-known international newspaper recently wrote that 2025 was the year when ...

Registration to the tralac website is required to download publications. 2025 has been a challenging year for trade relations and the impacts of US tariff policy ...

DBSA says $200m Lobito loan in line with regional integration strategy (Engineering News) South Africa’s State-owned Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) says its $200-million funding ...

Botswana’s economy seen shrinking almost 1% in 2025 due to diamond sector woes (Engineering News) Botswana’s government now forecasts an economic contraction of almost 1% this year as its key diamond ...