Posts by Alastair Tempest
Africa’s Ports – the 10 Best, According to the World Bank
SA was the only African country to rank among the Top 20 countries on the World Bank’s Logistics Performance Index, which is dominated by European countries, the US and China.…
Read MoreWither SAPO? The Continuing Saga of the SA Post Office
The SA Post Office was placed under provisional liquidation on February 9 after a court application by a creditor owed for rent. The Post Office’s most recent available financial statements…
Read MoreThe Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU) Adopts AEO
Accredited traders in Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia and SA will benefit from lower trade costs and quicker turn-around times for imports and exports, because of a Mutual Recognition Arrangement signed…
Read MoreMozambique Conformity Assessment Programme (CAP) – What it is and can you help?
The Mozambique government has published plans to introduce a new Conformity Assessment Programme. If this works as advertised, the importing of the goods that are listed in the CAP could…
Read MoreThe East African Community (EAC) Studies How Businesses are Approaching the AfCFTA – Striving For a Borderless EAC
ECA has committed to create a borderless region, with its own currency (although this is proving a tough nut to crack as we retorted last month). In order to assist,…
Read MoreAfrica Poses a Challenge to Multinationals Trying to be Compliant
The US applies stringent rules to multinational companies which do business within its territory under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. This Act applies extra-territorially to companies, requiring them to provide evidence…
Read MoreThe Future of the AGOA Agreement
The AGOA agreement between the USA and African states has brought a lot of benefits over the years. As we wrote in this Newsletter recently, the African Heads of State…
Read MoreNews From Africa
The South Africa Reserve Bank (SARB) Outlines its Plans for Changes In the past SARB only formally asked the traditional banking sector for comments on its detailed policies and regulations.…
Read MoreUNCTAD Continues to Encourage its Member States to Measure Ecommerce
One area in which there is very limited information available concerns the monetary value of ecommerce transactions. As readers will know, this is one of this EFA’s and EFSA’s major…
Read MoreAmazon is re-verifying the identity and business details of third-party sellers on its U.S. marketplace.
Amazon is asking sellers to re-verify their identity because of a new US federal law. On 27 June, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will start enforcing the INFORM Consumers Act…
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