The US House of Representatives passed a three-year extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) on 12 January 2026, offering a potential lifeline for the US’s flagship trade initiative ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eswatini has begun validating reforms to align its investment regime with the AfCFTA Protocol on Investment, as stakeholders reviewed a national gap analysis report. The country has taken a key step ...

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 ...

Trudi Hartzenberg is the Executive Director of tralac. She has a special interest in trade-related capacity building. Her research areas include trade policy issues, regional integration, investment, ...

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) ...

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 ...