The 2025 edition of the World Trade Report reveals that, with the right enabling policies, artificial intelligence (AI) could boost the value of cross-border flows of goods and services by nearly 40% ...

South Africa’s fishing industry has secured access to export fish and fish products from listed fisheries to the United States beyond January 2026. This comes after South Africa’s fish products were ...

George Chikondi Lwanda is a regional programme and policy advisor with the UNDP Africa Centre, a 2018 Asia Global Fellow at the Asia Global Institute at the Hong Kong University, and an alum of the Mo ...

SA importers turn to resilience, partnerships amid trade turbulence (Bizcommunity) South African importers are facing a volatile trade environment, where disruptions from geopolit ...

Dr. Ify Ogo is a legal economist and trade specialist. Her experience includes working as the UNDP Regional Coordination Specialist on the AfCFTA, as well as Trade Policy Expert at the African Trade ...

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 ...

Ms Viola Sawere has over 15 years’ experience in international trade policy, private sector development and multi-stakeholder dialogue. She holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) ...

Making sense of America’s new tariff regime and implications for South Africa (tralac) An Executive Order late on 31 July brought a measure of certainty to the fast-paced and co... An Executive Order ...

How US tariffs are affecting South Africa’s trade dynamics (IOL) South Africa’s trade with the United States had already fallen even before the 30% US tariffs came into effect ...

Registration to the tralac website is required to download publications. As the drive to achieve net zero intensifies, the demand for critical minerals, essential ...

Over the past 10 years, intra-Africa trade has grown from US$ 98 billion in 2013 to US$ 102 billion in 2022. Despite this performance, intra-Africa trade as a share of Africa’s global trade has ...

The combined, textile, apparel and footwear manufacturing industry remains Lesotho’s largest formal private sector employer – employing around 46 500 workers. Its current employment is below its early ...