US-Africa trade has averaged about $70-80 billion annually over the past decade, Turhan said. “The US’ trade volume in 2024 was around $7.37 trillion, so Africa’s share in US trade remained around 1.1 ...

A coalition of exporters, importers and traders has kicked against plans by the Ghana Shippers’ Authority (GSA) to make the Smart Port Note (SPN) mandatory from February 1, 2026, warning that the ...

The US House of Representatives has passed a three-year extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), offering a potential lifeline for the US’s flagship trade initiative with the ...

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 ...

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, ...

Maria Immanuel is an international trade expert and a tralac Alumna based in Windhoek, Namibia. She makes music and is a Digital trade entrepreneur.

Beatrice Chaytor is an international trade lawyer, called to the Bar in England and Wales as well as Sierra Leone, with over 30 years’ experience in providing advice and support to NGO’s, governments ...

Ms Viola Sawere has over 15 years’ experience in international trade policy, private sector development and multi-stakeholder dialogue. She holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) ...