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 ...

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 ...

Registration to the tralac website is required to download publications. Cross-border trade is a source of income and livelihoods for thousands of Africans. Over 70% ...

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Registration to the tralac website is required to download publications. The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is set to expire in less than seven months: at ...

Registration to the tralac website is required to download publications. In this Trade Brief we discuss some key developments and events (some quite recent) which we ...

In a new tralac Trade Brief, Abrie du Plessis discusses CBCA/PVoC programmes in the SADC region within a GATT, WTO and SADC context The significant increase in imported consumer goods into SADC ...

Registration to the tralac website is required to download publications. The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) expires in September 2025. There are high-level ...