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.

From 27 to 29 May 2025, a WCO national workshop on the AfCFTA Rules of Origin (RoO) was held in Pretoria, South Africa, hosted by the South African Revenue Service (SARS) and funded by the Japan ...

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 ...

Making sense of America’s new tariff regime and implications for South Africa (tralac) An Executive Order late on 31 July brought a measure of certainty to the fast-paced and continuously evolving US ...

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has released preliminary trade statistics revealing that the country achieved a trade balance surplus of R22.0 billion for June 2025. This positive balance is ...

South Africa’s proactive approach to finding new trade partners as US tariffs loom (IOL) South Africa is quickly expanding its global trade partners as a solution to the United States of America’s 30% ...

The intersection of geopolitical, domestic and trade issues best defines the current impasse between South Africa and the United States, and a reset is unavoidable. South Africa took the decision not ...

Ramaphosa: We’re engaging with the US, but also exploring other export markets (Engineering News) With the threat of 30% tariffs on South African exports to the US looming from ...

Ndiitah Nghipondoka-Robiati is Chief Executive Officer, Namibia Trade Forum. Before joining NTF in April 2014, she was a lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of ...