Standard Chartered Bank is boosting bilateral trade between Africa and Asian by launching its Nigerian Malaysian Trade Corridor.The initiative was part of a seminar held in Lagos in conjunction with the Nigeria-Malaysian Business Council as part of the bank's Africa SME Month with the theme "Optimizing Global Opportunities For SMEs: International Trade With Malaysia."
The Fisheries Department, in collaboration with Overseas Agro-Fisheries Consultancy Company, recently ended a two-day capacity building training for fish retailers in Western Region on the rules and regulations for the proper utilisation of fish market.
Rwanda customs officials have banned Ugandan clearing agents operating at Katuna border town from clearing goods in their country at the adjacent border town of Gatuna saying that they have enough staff to handle trucks entering and leaving their country.
The UN is holding a three-day high-level meeting for developing countries in Nairobi to discuss priority development issues and enhance South-South Cooperation.
Four years ago, a ministerial conference of the World Trade Organisation collapsed in Hong Kong.
Botswana Meat Commission (BMC) has failed to fully take advantage of exporting beef to the European Union (EU) duty-free and exploiting the opportunity created by the suspension of Brazil from the market as the global recession forced consumers to look for cheaper sources of protein.
ZIMBABWE and South Africa are set to implement the contents of an outstanding Memorandum of Understanding on trade and economic affairs that was signed months ago in the New Year.
Kenya's trading partners in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa trading bloc are pushing for quick privatisation of State-owned sugar firms ahead of the full liberalisation of the domestic sugar market in 2012.
Many farmers across the country are disillusioned about this year's trade season. They are not sure whether they will in fact have a trade season at all.
East African Community (EAC) Common Market Protocol that paved way for the free movement of goods, labour and capital becomes operational starting July 1, 2010.
Yet another session of the World Trade Organisation's Ministerial Conference on Monday, November 30, will hear appeals to save the crumbling free-trade Doha Round from US and EU farmers' subsidies -- but that boring news hides an exciting fact: Africans can free themselves.
SA's trade balance swung dramatically back into the red in October, recording a deficit of R6,7bn, the biggest shortfall since January.
THE 12th East Africa International Trade Exhibition is all set to open its doors to the business community in the country as from Wednesday.
Coffee farmers in Uganda will find it hard to meet their daily cash flow needs as the country continues earning less from its exports to the international market.
Uganda is likely to be a top - 50 oil producer by 2015 and on course for 100,000-150,000 bpd of oil in five years. However, waxy crude oil will require heated pipeline for transport, reports Reuters.
The Federal Government has taken over its pavilion for the forthcoming World expo 2010 scheduled to take place in Shangai, China, a statement from the Ministry of Commerce and Industry has said.
South Africa has recorded a R6.7 billion trade deficit in October, the South African Revenue Services (SARS) said on Monday.
African countries are ready to conclude the Doha Round on the basis of current proposals, but warn against any attempt to renegotiate them at the seventh ministerial conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that opens in Geneva today. Meanwhile, the Africa Trade Network demands a moratorium on the Doha talks.
Contribution to the preparation of the Declaration of the World Summit on Food Security
Developing members in the World Trade Organization (WTO) called for urgent action to resolve the remaining issues in the Doha Round of trade negotiations so that a shared objective to conclude the round in 2010 could be accomplished.
Botswana is currently doing an audit to make sure that illicit diamonds do not enter the country when its independent diamond market starts operations.
Nigeria delegation to Shanghai, China has taken over the Nigeria Pavilion on behalf of the federal government for the Shanghai Expo 2010 in China.
THE Commonwealth must be used to create business opportunities for its 53 member states, President Yoweri Museveni told the Commonwealth Business Forum on Thursday.
The United Kingdom's Department of International Development (DfID) and the Dutch Foreign Ministry have commissioned a research to explore mechanisms of increasing transparency in minerals trade within the Great Lakes Region, The New Times reports.
UGANDA recorded a trade deficit of $58.4m in September due to a reduction in informal cross-border exports, the central bank data showed last week, reports Sylvia Juuko.
