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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Feb 8, 20211 min read
World Trade Organization looks set to have its first Female & First African leader
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Set to Become W.T.O.’s First Female Leader Her path was cleared after Yoo Myung-hee, the South Korean trade minister,...
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Sep 22, 20201 min read
South Africa’s Tobacco, Booze Ban Lit Up Illegal Trade
South Africa may have banned cigarettes and alcohol during its lockdown but, for some, the good times kept rolling. While the rules were...
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Sep 17, 20202 min read
World Bank: Lessons from Ethiopia and Vietnam - How COVID-19 is transforming global value chains?
Global value chains (GVCs) have powered economic transformation by enabling developing countries to specialize and catalyze growth and...
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Sep 14, 20204 min read
$3.1bn Nigeria Customs modernisation project concession won by Huawei, Smiths Detection & Bionica
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) ratified the $3.1 billion anticipatory approval by President Muhammadu Buhari to concession the...
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Sep 5, 20202 min read
Why trade matters for African development
A repository of real-time information on current trade negotiations is needed to track the rules that shape development outcomes in...
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Aug 17, 20201 min read
AfCFTA: World’s Biggest Free-Trade Pact Targets First Deal in 2021
The first commercial deal under an Africa-wide free trade zone will take place on Jan. 1 as outstanding talks are set to move online, the...
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Jul 31, 20203 min read
WORLD BANK - Africa Trade Pact Could Boost Income by $450 Billion, Study Finds
WASHINGTON, July 27, 2020—The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) represents a major opportunity for countries to boost growth,...
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Jul 2, 20202 min read
African Perspectives: Digital Solutions for Trade Facilitation - TRALAC
Since 1947, states of the world have been working to liberalize international trade by reducing tariffs, under the General Agreement on...
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Jun 29, 20202 min read
Africa: COMESA Electronic Certificate of Origin (eCO) System will fast-track movement of goods
New Comesa plan set to ease movement of goods Kenya is among 15 African States that have agreed to pilot a new project seeking to ease...
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Mar 4, 20202 min read
New project seeks to ease trade across central Africa - UNCTAD & AfDB Collaboration
Great news from our friends & advisory council members at UNCTAD on the launch yesterday by Secretary General, Dr Mukhisa Kituyi of the...
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Feb 27, 20201 min read
Ghana Single Window - UNI-PASS Unfazed By Negative Campaign
As Ghana moves to implement its new single window system with UNIPASS at GTDW China Trade Development Week we ask "Single Window: What Is...
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Feb 12, 20202 min read
Uganda Revenue Authority starts implementation of Digital Tax Stamps on a high
The body reports that 32 manufacturers and importers who are domestic and exporters have already registered their factory lines in...
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Feb 6, 20202 min read
Can the African Continental Free Trade Area succeed where previous initiatives have failed?
Africa heads into a historic year in which the long-awaited African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) finally becomes a reality, with...
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Jan 29, 20201 min read
Fake Pharma: How bad is Africa’s counterfeit medicine problem?
The proliferation of fake medicines in Africa is a public health crisis that can no longer be ignored, according to a UK charity. There's...
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Jan 24, 20204 min read
South Africa’s illicit cigarette trade - No smoke without fire!
The illicit trade in tobacco, especially cigarettes, costs South Africa’s economy billions of rand annually through lost tax revenue....
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Jan 17, 20203 min read
Have You Seen The Program & Speakers?
Welcome back to the new year and a new decade for The 4th GTDW Anti Illicit Trade, Brand & IPR Protection Conference + GTDW Trade...
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Jan 15, 20203 min read
Uganda Single Window offers seamless clearance of goods
The implementation of the Uganda Electronic Single Window (UESW) system has saved traders about $85,000 (sh308.4m) annually, that was...
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Jan 9, 20202 min read
Michael Ding, Chairman, Quality Brands Assurance Committee China (QBPC) Joins GTDW China Keynotes
GTDW China Trade Development Week Welcomes Michael Ding, Chairman Quality Brands Assurance Committee China (QBPC) joining keynote...
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Jan 6, 20202 min read
Ethiopia Launches Single Window Service To Facilitate Trade
Ethiopia Launches Electronic Customs Processing Platform For Traders The Government of Ethiopia launches an electronic platform that will...
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