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Social Commerce sellers who relied on FB Marketplace or Instagram for sales suddenly found themselves without a ‘buy now’ button. We understand that this is because Meta is introducing it…
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China Leads the World in Ecommerce – China’s Ecommerce Imports to SA According to GlobalData’s Ecommerce Analytics, China is set to achieve a 9.9% growth and retain its dominant position…
Read MoreReducing the Trade in Illicit Medicines
This Newsletter has previously covered the World Health Organisation’s concerns about the sale of unregistered medicines. Every year there is a scandal where dangerous medical preparations lead to deaths, particularly…
Read MoreQuality Control
The question of quality control is starting to move centre stage. Last month we reported on the USA’s new INFORM Consumers Act which requires importers to report, among other things,…
Read MoreIncreasing Environmental Sustainability – Do We Always Need Eating Utensils When Ordering Food Online?
Last night 3 of us in the Tempest household ordered an Asian take-away which came with chop sticks. We now have enough chop sticks or plastic knives and forks to…
Read MoreThe African Union Joins The G20
As difficult as it will be for the AU to speak with one voice for 55 countries, the decision at the recent G20 Summit in India to admit the AU…
Read MoreBRICS Summit – Picking Up the Bits
SA is giving itself a pat on the back for hosting the 15th BRICS Summit in August. The highlight was the acceptance of 6 new BRICS members Egypt, Ethiopia, Argentina, the…
Read MoreSAITEX 2023
The SAITEX exhibition took place on 18-20 June. EFSA took the stage on the last day to look at ecommerce and in particular at cross-border opportunities. We were delighted to…
Read MoreChina-Africa Trade
The Chinese have been very keen to forge trade agreements to benefit their ecommerce exports in SA and elsewhere in Africa. In that regard, EFA was invited to a meeting…
Read MoreThe Russian Amazon – Yandex – Expanding in Africa
Yandex, which is a major tech company (the 8th largest globally) with a wide range of interests including ecommerce, digital marketing and SEO measurement, entertainment, B2B machine learning, is looking…
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