The 16th Session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD16) is taking place from 20 to 23 October 2025 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The theme for the event is ...

According to a report issued by the General Organization for Export and Import Control (GOEIC) on Egypt’s foreign trade performance between January and September 2025, non-oil exports rose by 21%, ...

South Africa has intensified efforts to expand its export footprint across Africa and beyond, following a successful Export Symposium and Expo. The expo was hosted by the Department of Trade, Industry ...

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 ...

Somalia’s Parliament Ratifies Africa Free Trade Area Agreement (Dawan Africa) Somalia’s House of the People has officially ratified the African Continental Free Trade Area (Af ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Registration to the tralac website is required to download publications. The implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement may start ...

The AfCFTA Protocol on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) was adopted by the AU Assembly during its 36th Ordinary Session held from 18 to 19 February 2023 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Protocol ...