Tag: Africa

  • AGOA Renewed

    Congress rides a two year extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act on the government funding bill, but African exporters warn that short term fixes cannot restore the investment the program was built to attract WASHINGTON, September 9, 2026 America’s flagship trade program with sub-Saharan Africa has been given another lease on life. President…

  • SACU Steel Wall

    Southern African Customs Union imposes provisional anti-dumping duties on Chinese coated flat-rolled steel as Pretoria escalates its defence of a battered domestic mill sector By the International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting PRETORIA, Aug. 31, 2026. Provisional anti-dumping duties on imports of coated flat-rolled steel from China took effect across the Southern African Customs Union on…

  • SA Sugar Wall

    South Africa has raised its sugar import duty by roughly 44 percent after lifting the dollar-based reference price to $785 per ton, erecting a higher tariff wall around the entire Southern African Customs Union in a bid to halt an import surge that has grown more than seventy-fold in four years. JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 1: Importers…

  • AGOA Extended

    The Senate’s 90 to 6 vote to renew duty-free African trade through 2028 heads to the House, offering exporters from Lagos to Nairobi a reprieve even as new US forced labor tariffs cloud the value of the preference WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 2026 – A rare piece of good news in a bruising year for global…

  • AGOA Lifeline

    Africa welcomes the US Senate’s two-year extension of duty-free trade, but industry leaders warn that Section 232 and Section 301 tariffs have hollowed out the program’s biggest benefits WASHINGTON, Aug. 19, 2026 – Relief is rippling across sub-Saharan Africa this week as governments and exporters digest the US Senate’s decision to extend the African Growth…

  • China’s Africa Embrace, Minus One

    China’s Africa Embrace, Minus One

    What Beijing’s new zero-tariff architecture means for trade, geopolitics, and the global pushback against protectionism. On May 1, 2026, China’s customs barriers fell for almost an entire continent. Imports from 53 of Africa’s 54 countries now enter the Chinese market at a zero tariff across 100 percent of tariff lines, an unusually broad preference that…

  • The Road to Zero Tariffs: China’s Pioneering Trade Policy with Africa

    Table of Contents 1. Introduction Over the past several decades, global trade has witnessed transformative shifts that have redefined the way nations interact economically and geopolitically. One of the most notable developments is China’s decision to remove tariffs on nearly all goods imported from African nations, a bold maneuver that goes well beyond a simple…