The political fallout from Trump’s reciprocal tariff regime has wider ramifications. Arrangements that were formed during ...

The Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) has launched a Trade Facilitation Desk to support the growth and development of trade across the country. The launch took place on August 16, 2025, at the Chief ...

The Trump administration called these measures “reciprocal”, asserting they mirrored and counteracted trade barriers faced by US exports. On 31 July, President Trump signed another Executive Order ...

What is a tariff? A tariff is simply a tax on imports, which is charged at the border when the imported goods enter the tariff-imposing country. The answer to ‘who pays the tariff?’ is a little more ...

The fact that the G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors was able to release a joint statement after the ...

South Africa’s state-owned electricity company, Eskom, is trying to protect its monopoly in the face of the envisaged transition to a liberalised energy market. The utility has gone to the Gauteng ...

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One in three, or 32.9%, of adults in South Africa are unemployed, highlighting that the economy is suffocating under the weight of structural inefficiencies that reforms could fix, says business ...

South Africa, long regarded as the continent’s most advanced economy, is moving decisively to counter the fallout from Washington’s latest tariff measures by turning to Beijing for new trade ...

Trudi Hartzenberg is the Executive Director of tralac. She has a special interest in trade-related capacity building. Her research areas include trade policy issues, regional integration, investment, ...