Posts by Alastair Tempest
The Results of the African Industrialisation Summit, 20 November
The lack of industry infrastructure and the inadequate development capital needed by countries to position themselves to compete with others in the global value chains requires a multi-faceted, coordinated and…
Read MoreCOMESA Reduces Admin Costs
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has made major strides in simplifying administrative processes under its Free Trade Area agreement to deepen intra-regional trade which stood at US$90bn as of 2020.…
Read MoreThe Trade and Customs Conference, 7 – 9 Nov. and the Transport Forum, 24 Nov
EFA spoke at the African Trade and Customs conference, moderating a session on the future needs of the ecommerce sector in order to enjoy the benefits of greater intra-African trade.…
Read MoreAUC to hold 1st Exporters Conference in Nairobi During the Week of 12 Dec
The African Union is holding a conference on exporting in Africa in mid-December. EFA will be attending and will take the opportunity to promote the formation of a “Ecommerce Forum…
Read MoreNews From Africa
Will SA be influenced by India’s New Bill on Data Privacy? And a Reminder About The PAIA/POPIA Requirements The Indian government has presented a new Bill to Parliament on ‘Digital…
Read MoreDigital Advertising: changes, challenges and ways forward
EFSA gave a presentation to the Digital Marketing conference on 23-24 November. While doing my research, I came across some USA based research on the changes seen recently in the…
Read MoreA new UN convention on tax?
Developing nations are hoping to secure greater power over global tax affairs at a critical United Nations vote in New York. The draft resolution calls on members to agree to lay the…
Read MoreTrade Figures – All Good News from the WTO
Trade growth is likely to slow in the closing months of 2022 and into 2023, according to the latest WTO Goods Trade Barometer released on 28 November, as the global…
Read MoreMiscellaneous
WTO’s JSI Continues Its Work on Ecommerce The World Trade Organisation’s eCommerce Committee (JSI – don’t you love acronyms, especially when they don’t relate to the subject at hand!) plans…
Read MoreElon Musk’s Words of Advice
Twitter under Elon Musk’s rule may well change – we will have to wait and see, and we look forward to reporting on the changes as and when they become…
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