This report reviews and sheds light on recent developments with AGOA renewal and evolving US trade and tariff policy with a focus on South Africa, which in early April 2025 was informed of a blanket ...

An Executive Order [1] late on 31 July brought a measure of certainty to the fast-paced and continuously evolving US trade policy, especially insofar as it relates to the country’s new tariff regime.

However, the conference did produce an Outcome Document, supported at Seville by 192 members of the UN. It is a dense, at times opaque document, running to 38 pages consisting of 66 numbered ...

The discovery and development of critical minerals in Africa is of course work in progress. However, it is heavily weighted in favour of Chinese mining and trading firms. Figures produced by the ...

On April 2, a day he called “Liberation Day”, President Trump declared a national economic emergency because of the US’s deficits in trade in goods and announced “reciprocal tariffs” on goods imported ...

SACU COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite FTA Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) African Union resources Africa's global trade relations EU/EPAs BRICS US/AGOA Brexit WTO ...

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