Trade

News : Trade

South Africa, the only African state to date to have signed a "strategic partnership agreement" with the European Union, is holding a summit with the EU today in Bordeaux, France. (AllAfrica)

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today designated seventeen entities, including several Zimbabwean parastatals, and one individual whose support for Robert Mugabe's regime contributes to the undermining of democratic processes and institutions in Zimbabwe. (AllAfrica)

Entering the Monkeybiz shop, one is confronted with hundreds of brightly coloured beaded animals, dolls, place mats and pictures. You find yourself smiling involuntarily. (AllAfrica)

FEDERAL Government and the Lagos State government yesterday maintained sealed lips over the sixteen petroleum tank farms in the state barred from use of the bays to take delivery of imported petroleum products owing to the traffic jam caused by articulated tankers which load from their depots. (AllAfrica)

Nigeria spends a staggering $3billion annually due to heavy importation of three major staples from abroad. (AllAfrica)

Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has said the delay in the Doha talks is adversely affecting economic advancement of countries in Sub- Saharan Africa, including Nigeria. (AllAfrica)

WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) boss Pascal Lamy has extended trade talks in Geneva with agreement on key issues still out of reach after four days. (AllAfrica)

A commission set up by the third general assembly of the Conference of Consular Chambers of the Central African Economic and Monetary Union has revealed that the activities of custom and police officers have been identified as a stumbling block to trans-boundary trade in the sub-region. (AllAfrica)

"Our relations with African countries are historical as the liberation of the continent started way back in the 50s and 60s by hosting and training freedom fighters and supplying them with arms and ammunition." (AllAfrica)

THE Federal Government, yesterday, barred 16 tank farms in Lagos from using the bays to take delivery of imported petroleum products on account of the traffic jam caused by articulated tankers loading from the affected depots. (AllAfrica)

From zero revenue in the year 2000, coffee now joins the growing list of products that Rwanda exports with receipts hitting some $15 (about 8.5 billion Francs) this year even before it ends, the Rwanda Coffee Authority said on Thursday. (AllAfrica)

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched a Growing Markets report. The report underlines strategies for doing business while involving the poor as the untapped resource that contributes to economic development and enhancing the country's efforts towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). (AllAfrica)

The Botswana People's Party (BPP) says the government must take over the Mmamabula coal project and develop the power station to reduce over reliance on ESKOM. (AllAfrica)

The provincial transport department has rubbished allegations by the DA that delays in the construction of two major highways would cost taxpayers R75-million extra and that they would not be ready for the 2010 World Cup. (AllAfrica)

There are growing tensions in the northern Somali port city of Berbera between the local Somaliland administration and livestock traders, who have opposed the administration's economic deal with a wealthy Saudi Arabian businessman. (AllAfrica)

ROOFINGS expects $10m (about sh16.3b) from exports to southern Sudan this year, the chief executive officer, Sikander Lalani, has predicted. (AllAfrica)

The East African Community has signed an agreement with commodity dealers from the region that will enable them participate more in policy-making and facilitation of trade. (AllAfrica)

SA HAS taken pole position defending developing countries at crucial trade talks in the World Trade Organisation in Geneva, where trade ministers hope to clinch a deal before US President George Bush leaves office. (AllAfrica)

Nigeria and seven other developing countries have called for a fair, transparent and non-discriminatory international financial and trade system by the super powers. (AllAfrica)

Although Kenya has increased its share of trade within east Africa and Comesa, its trade levels with the world have reduced by half in the last two decades. (AllAfrica)

A Ugandan poultry exporter is accusing the Kenyan Government of betraying the spirit of East Africa Community by imposing unwarranted restrictions on cross-border trade. (AllAfrica)

Uncertainty still hangs over Uganda's accession to the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) Customs Union, which is only five months away. (AllAfrica)

South Africa and the European Union are to strengthen relations and address shared bilateral, regional and global interests at the SA-EU Summit that kicks-off on Friday in Bordeaux, France. (AllAfrica)

LOCAL companies have been called upon to take advantage of the forthcoming 12th China International Fair for Investment and Trade, which takes place from September 8 to 11, to promote their products and businesses. (AllAfrica)

Rwanda's coffee industry was blessed with Starbucks' launch of Rwanda's coffee called the Blue Bourbon Coffee, across most of its stores in the Middle East. (AllAfrica)

Uganda Government has called for increased bilateral trade with France not only to build and boost regional markets but also realise balanced and sustainable trade between the two countries. (AllAfrica)

The South-south South-east Development Group (SSSEDG) has commended the effort of Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) under the leadership of the Managing Director, Olubunmi Peters for ensuring effective maintenance of the nation's roads. (AllAfrica)

Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has plans to reclaim its properties around the country which have been taken over by illegal occupants. (AllAfrica)

COFFEE traders who dry their produce on bare ground risk arrest, the Uganda Coffee Development Authority has warned. (AllAfrica)

African countries were Monday asked to bargain hard before signing away access to their markets to foreigners. (AllAfrica)

The United States and the East African Community signed a trade agreement last week that could eventually lead to greater access to the two sides' respective markets. (AllAfrica)