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A two-day sub-regional durbar, to deliberate on the issues of trade between Ghana and Burkina Faso, has been held at Navrongo in the Kassena-Nankana District of the Upper East Region.
Rwanda has officially begun the implementation of the East African Community's Customs Union, two years after her entry into the regional bloc.
The Nigeria Customs Service has become the beneficiary of a three-day training programme on intellectual property enforcement at Nigeria's borders and ports organised by the United States' Mission in Nigeria in collaboration with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The training also focused on health aspects of intellectual property enforcement.
GOVERNMENT'S restriction of live sheep exports to South Africa has been found to be illegal by the South African Agricultural Marketing Board.
Red tunas, sharks, rays and cods may soon disappear from our tables. Negotiations are ongoing at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to reduce the subsidies that contribute to this catastrophe.
The current revenue collection practices at the international and inter-state borders in Southern Sudan are harming trade between the attractive market and the East Africa, a new the study titled: "Cross-border trade: Fuelling conflict or Building Peace?" reveals.
Botswana's trade deficit has started to ease-off as diamond sales pick-up on the back of renewed hopes of an economic recovery.
THE warning this week by the Government on the increase in illegally-imported baby formulas into the country must be taken seriously.
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group approved, Wednes-day in Tunis, a $500m investment in the Global Trade Liquidity Program as the second phase of its Trade Finance Initiative.
THE government may extend the statutory instrument providing for duty-free importation of fast moving consumer goods, but grant targeted tariff protection to a few industries on its Common Market for East and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) sensitive lists, it has emerged.
Spurred by the failure of the Coastal and Inland Shipping (Cabotage) Act 2003 to enhance indigenous shipping capacity, the House Committee on Marine Transport has embarked on investigation of the waiver application in the law.
For APM Terminals Apapa Limited, operator of the Container Terminal in Apapa, Lagos it was a landmark safety record.
Traders doing business across borders will no longer have to carry huge sums of money to facilitate their businesses.
The Chairman of Dangote Group of companies, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, said Wednesday that Nigeria spends $800 million (N116 billion) annually on importing sugar that it can produce locally.
The Federal Government, according to its current budget, expects N1.972 trillion revenue from the non-oil sector this year. Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has a target of N650 billion to meet - representing nearly one-third of the total sum. Over 60 per cent of Customs' revenue is expected to come from ports in Lagos State. Yet, the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway that leads to the ports is one hell of a ...
The state minister for trade, Nelson Gaggawala Wambuzi, has called on more Turkish business people to invest in Uganda, saying the country had the most conducive environment for profitable investment in the region.
TRADING at the Uganda Securities Exchange (USE) picked up on Tuesday after a dismal performance at start of the trading week.
Traders query the criteria used by the Ministry of Commerce to fix new prices.
The European Union (EU) has undertaken to deal with some of the issues that could have precipitated a break-up of the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu).
Mozambique's exports fell in value by 36 per cent in the first quarter of this year, compared with the same period in 2008, according to the latest statistics from the Bank of Mozambique.
APAPA now stands for agony. Forget it is home to Nigeria's major ports and the nation's premier gateways by sea.
The adoption of genetically modified (GM) crops to off-set the current food crisis and increase the volume of agricultural exports in the country should be a last resort, agricultural experts have said.
SA's trade balance swung back into surplus for the first time in two- and-a-half years in May, official data showed yesterday, prompting a 2% rand rally to a 10-month peak.
The effects of the global economic downturn and disruptions caused by piracy off the coast of Somalia and the Gulf of Aden have finally hit operations at the Port of Mombasa, forcing its managers to review tariff charges to avoid loss of business to rival ports.
NEXTZON Business Servic es Limited, one of the Nigeria's leading enterprise building firm is breaking new grounds in forging cross border trade alliances as it recently facilitated the visit of a Brazilian Trade Mission to Nigeria.
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