The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said the decision by the countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to reduce airport and travel charges by 25 per cent ...

After Trump’s 30% tariff, South Africa mounts defence against fresh U.S. trade penalties (Business Insider Africa) South Africa is mounting a formal challenge to a new U.S. tariff proposal that could ...

This infographic accompanies a tralac Blog, entitled Strategising Africa’s Response to Declining Global MFN Trade and Underutilisation of Preferences ...

Registration to the tralac website is required to download publications. This Trade Brief brings together four recent research contributions from tralac on Africa’s ...

For more information, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. South Africa and Kenya target ...

According to data published recently by the WTO, the proportion of global trade conducted under most-favoured nation (MFN) terms fell from approximately 80% at the beginning of 2025 to 72% by February ...

Dawid van Wyk is a retired Professor of Law. He taught public law at the University of South Africa. In retirement he keeps himself busy with ad hoc research and editing.

Alan Wm. Wolff is Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). He began his four-year term in this position on 1 October 2017. He was formerly Senior Counsel at the global law firm ...

Aïcha Maliki is the Deputy Director of Trade Facilitation at the Cameroon National Shippers Council. She has been a member of the AfCFTA implementation committee Secretariat in Cameroon since 2022 ...

Modern trade agreements are concerned less and less with tariffs and more and more with other, more elusive barriers to trade. Key to this is the increasing focus on regulatory barriers to trade. Some ...