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Promoting Women Entrepreneurs
At a meeting of the World Trade Organisation’s WGs on Trade and Gender, and on Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, it was agreed that the WTO Secretariat and the International…
Read MoreTaxation – the Need for a Multinational Set of Agreements.
Ecommerce businesses relying on imported supplies or cross-border ecommerce can face confusion over where taxes are levied, this usually results in extra costs to the ultimate consumer. It was a…
Read MoreBig Tech News
A group of over 40 US state attorneys general sued the social media company Meta, alleging that its products are addictive and contribute to the youth mental health crisis. The…
Read MoreEU Introduces New Rules on Environmental Requirements for Imports – EFA is Concerned These May Discriminate Against African Social Media Merchants.
The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) aims to put a fair price on the carbon emitted during the production of carbon intensive goods that enter the EU, and to…
Read MoreCybersecurity News – Targeting Citizens Across the World
A Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA) survey conducted in association with Scam Adviser and involving 49,459 people from 43 countries paints a devastating picture of the worldwide onslaught of scams, highlighting an urgent need for…
Read MoreMiscellaneous
2023 Black Friday Forecast to be the Most Profitable in Europe and the USA. EFSA held a meeting with BankServ and PASA on the banks’ preparedness for Black Friday in…
Read MoreThe de minimis Rule
As we reported previously in the Newsletter, EFA submitted a paper to the EU calling on it not to scrap its de minimis rule which allows low-value goods to enter…
Read MoreUNCTAD’s eWeek, 4-8 December
The eWeek replaces UNCTAD’s Ecommerce Week and will be a hybrid conference with an expected 4,000 participants from around the world. To attend you must register unctad.org/eWeek2023 . EFA is involved in…
Read MoreThe Safety of Artificial Intelligence
The UK hosted a major meeting on AI safety on 1-2 November at Bletchley Park, entitled the “AI Safety Summit”. Most of the key global players attended – the UN,…
Read MoreThe Struggle for an Environmentally Sustainable Africa
The inaugural Africa Climate Summit last month adopted ‘the Nairobi Declaration’, a document that highlighted Africa’s vulnerability to the climate crisis and called for more ambitious and progressive action from…
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