Trump’s tariffs included a 145% US tax on Chinese imports, to which China responded by announcing a 125% Chinese tariff on US imports. These two countries have since agreed to a truce, pending further ...

There have also been new initiatives to work out bespoke bilateral deals. They are, for the time being, ad hoc trade arrangements. It will take a long time (and require a proper strategy) to ...

South Africa recorded a preliminary trade balance surplus of R14.1 billion in April 2025. This surplus was attributable to exports of R166.2 billion and imports of R152.1 billion, inclusive of trade ...

US trade court blocks govt’s tariffs imposed in early April; shows rising domestic opposition toward tariff policy: expert (Global Times) The New York-based Court of International Trade on Wednesday ...

Registration to the tralac website is required to download publications. The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) – the United States’ flagship trade ...

The Bretton Woods institutions, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group (WBG), appeared to have dodged a bullet at the annual Spring meeting held in Washington in April. There had ...

Registration to the tralac website is required to download publications. This trade brief examines the utilisation of tariff rate quotas (TRQs) under the EU-SADC ...

Registration to the tralac website is required to download publications. This trade brief deals with the relationship between deindustrialisation and regulatory ...

Registration to the tralac website is required to download publications. In this Trade Report, we review selected prospective trends, challenges and developments ...

Registration to the tralac website is required to download publications. In this Trade Brief we discuss some key developments and events (some quite recent) which we ...

Registration to the tralac website is required to download publications. In November 2023, following the conclusion of the annual AGOA Forum in South Africa, US ...