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World Bank’s 2023 Logistics Performance Index available

Sabato 22 Aprile 2023 07:13

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The World Bank has issued the 2023 edition of the Logistics Performance Index (LPI), an interactive benchmarking tool created to help countries to identify the challenges and opportunities they face in trade logistics and what they can do to improve the performance of such a sector. The LPI indicators are built on the basis of a specific methodology which includes specific surveys conducted on international logistics operators (global freight forwarders and express carriers), complemented by other information and data provided by other academic and professional sources.

Harmonising road transport regulatory instruments in Africa

Venerdì 21 Aprile 2023 08:18

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Today is the last day of the four-days continental workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa, to examine the status of harmonisation of Africa's cross-border road transport regulatory frameworks. Organised by the African Union Commission (AUC) in partnership with the European Union (EU)-funded Tripartite Transport and Transit Facilitation Programme (TTTFP), the workshop analysed best practices on policies and standards on road transport regulation harmonisation in Africa, including proposals for developing a Vehicle Load Management (VLM) strategy aimed at ensuring harmonised vehicle overload controls over the roads within the entire continent.

The initiatives to increase intra-African trade that Africa really needs

Giovedì 20 Aprile 2023 12:38

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It is sufficient to visit a few supermarkets and outlets in Africa to realize that the vast majority of products that are sold in the continent are imported from third countries. Although today all African countries are engaged in the production of consumer goods, Africans still seem to prefer imported goods to local products. The reasons? They are many.

COMESA moves towards the adoption of a regional Single Window

Martedì 18 Aprile 2023 07:03

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With 21 member countries, trade within the COMESA region can be challenging, as traders are confronted with extensive and duplicated documentation transmissions, to both the export and the import country, in different data formats and data types. To overcome this challenge, COMESA is working with its member States to launch a Regional Electronic Single Window (called "COMSW") that will enable trade and customs documents transmitted by exporters to the country of exit of goods to be used as entry documentation in other COMESA countries where they are imported, so to avoid duplications in the transmission of such information. This is the first experience of such type in Africa. Electronic documents that will be exchanged through the COMSW will include import and export licenses, permits and various types of certificates required for completing cross-border trade transactions.

African use of preferential trade regimes higher in the North-South than in South-South range

Lunedì 17 Aprile 2023 12:32

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A study made by the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the UNCTAD Secretariat sheds light on one important aspect of regional integration, namely, the effective use of the trade preferences provided by Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) such as the COMESA and SADC FTAs, or the EAC Customs Union, compared to other preferential concessions granted by developed countries, namely: Canada, the European Union, Japan and the United States of America, collectively indicated as “QUAD” countries. The study notes that utilization rates of the preferences established by such RECs are lower than the average registered under preferential concessions granted by QUAD.