The purpose of the evaluation is to review and assess the effectiveness of Sweden’s support to tralac, in terms of the standard evaluation criteria of OECD/DAC to determine its relevance, ...

Mining is expected to be a major driver of Africa’s development for the next few years. However, in many African jurisdictions, the industry is far from stable and needs to perform a complicated ...

South Africa has extraordinary growth potential, though low public investment and high costs of doing business have been holding back growth. Major structural reforms are needed to boost productivity ...

Sampa welcomes gov efforts to rework Brazil poultry import ban (Engineering News) The South African Meat Processors Association (Sampa) has welcomed efforts by the Department of Agriculture (DoA) to ...

South Africa’s GDP vulnerable of sliding into negative territory after barely growing in the first quarter (Engineering News) South Africa‘s gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.1% in the first ...

On 2 April 2025, President Trump announced an unparalleled increase in tariffs on goods imported into the US from most of its trading partners. A 10% baseline tariff was announced along with steeper ...

South African agricultural exports rose 10% in the first quarter to $3.36-billion from a year earlier as port performance improved and shipments to the US climbed, an industry body said. The 14% ...

President Trump’s second term has been described as arguably the most consequential of any modern president. He has upended the multilateral order established after World War Two, has transformed ...

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, ...

Paul Cormon is a French citizen who recently graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce specializing in Transport economics and Political sciences from Stellenbosch university. He also holds an ...