The trading relationships between South Africa and Africa over the last 18 years, has been made available through tralac which shows exactly who our biggest African trade partners are. Interesting stats in the synopsis (click here) show SADC has...
On 4th December 2013, the UK’s Secretary of State for International Development announced the early closure of the TMSA programme. As TMSA understands this decision has been informed by a year-long process of DFID reviews and evaluations, including...
Click here to download the full Tripartite Free Trade Agreement impact analysis Since its establishment in 2009, TradeMark Southern Africa (TMSA) has supported the Tripartite of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the...
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Tripartite Regional Economic Communities (RECs) are deepening regional economic integration through...
The resolution of the Kariba bridge NTB is not an isolated event. Nearly three quarters (74.6%) of all NTBs that have been logged in the last four years through Tripartite’s online NTB reporting and monitoring tool have been resolved, says Vonesai...
…if assented to, law shall be a hallmark in maintaining region’s road infrastructure East African Legislative Assembly, Kampala, Uganda May 29 2013: Trade facilitation in the region is expected to shift a notch higher following the passing...
At this week’s sitting of the East African Legislative Assembly, the regional legislators passed the One Stop Border Posts Bill 2012 which now goes to the EAC heads of state for consideration. Debate on the Bill was preceded by the tabling...
The total number of non-tariff barriers affecting business within the Comesa, EAC and SADC regions is 566. Sixty of these are dealt with by Fesarta (Federation of East and Southern Africa Road Transport Associations),as these are only those that...
In mid-March, COMPETE and the Kenyan Ministry of Trade (MoT) conducted two cross-border traders sensitization and joint border committee capacity building workshops at Malaba and Busia. The objective of the workshops was to inform small-scale,...
