For African countries working to improve their trade regimes, this case offers a practical roadmap: decentralize where feasible, build capacity at the front lines, and treat regulatory efficiency as a ...

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, ...

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 ...

President Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum entitled “ Reciprocal Trade and Tariffs ” that directed a review of the “non-reciprocal trading practices” by other nations and how they are related to ...

tralac offers an internship programme to young African graduates with a background in trade and related disciplines. The internship programme provides interns with an opportunity to gain a better ...

SARS clamps down on non-compliance in the fuel industry (SAnews) The South African Revenue Service (SARS) is working with other law enforcement agencies to combat illicit fuel trade, which costs the ...

South Africa released its pdf Critical Minerals and Metals Strategy (2.23 MB) for public comment on 20 May 2025. It is a polished and insightful document, reflecting the input of ...

Patrick Low, a Kenyan and Spanish national, is a Fellow at the Asia Global Institute of the University of Hong Kong and a Senior Adviser for Tulip Consulting. He currently works in an advisory ...

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South African macadamia farmers eye new markets after US tariff jolt (Engineering News) Gene Likhanya’s macadamia nut farm, started with personal savings and built up over two decades in South ...

Edna Oduwo is an advocate of the high court of Kenya with 4 years’ experience in both the public and the private sector, and a specialty in International Trade Law and Policy, which she is very ...