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Congo Brazzaville starts implementation of conformity assessment program

Venerdì 04 Febbraio 2022 08:18

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The Congo-Brazzaville Agency for Standardization and Quality (ACONOQ) has appointed Cotecna and Bureau Veritas as certification bodies for the Congolese Conformity Assessment Program (PCEC) for products exported to Congo. The PCEC was launched in October 2021 to ensure that products imported into the Republic of Congo comply with applicable standards before shipment, to avoid the entry into Congo of unsafe and substandard products. Regulated products will be rejected by Congo Customs unless accompanied by a Certificate of Conformity issued by an authorized conformity body.

Sub-Saharan Africa lagging behind in the implementation of trade facilitation measures

Giovedì 03 Febbraio 2022 06:51

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The United Nations Global Report for Digital and Sustainable Trade Facilitation makes an inventory of all measures globally available to facilitate trade, with their implementation rates in the different regions of the world. A total of 58 measures are identified, classified into four groups: 1) “General Trade Facilitation”, 2) ”Digital Trade Facilitation”, 3) “Sustainable Trade Facilitation” and 4) “Other Trade Facilitation”. Each measure is organised in a table that shows which ones of them is covered by a specific provision of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA).

New published report assesses level of integration of services in Africa

Mercoledì 02 Febbraio 2022 09:06

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The 10th edition of Assessing Regional Integration in Africa X (ARIA X), the popular publication realised by the United Nations, Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in collaboration with the African Union Commission; the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the African Development Bank, focuses mainly on services liberalisation and integration in the context of the AfCFTA.

AfCFTA Secretariat, EU and WCO meet to discuss about the state of implementation of the AfCFTA

Mercoledì 02 Febbraio 2022 05:58

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On 27 January 2022, representatives of the WCO, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat and the European Commission had a virtual meeting during which a discussion was held regarding the state of implementation of the AfCFTA.

Two main updates, in particular, emerged during the discussions:

Djibouti port loses traffic shares from neighbouring Ethiopia

Martedì 01 Febbraio 2022 07:25

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According to the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Transport, the volume of Ethiopia trade channeled through Djibouti has decreased significantly in the past six months, from 95 to 83.9 percent.

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Congo Brazzaville starts implementation of conformity assessment program

Sub-Saharan Africa lagging behind in the implementation of trade facilitation measures

New published report assesses level of integration of services in Africa

AfCFTA Secretariat, EU and WCO meet to discuss about the state of implementation of the AfCFTA

Djibouti port loses traffic shares from neighbouring Ethiopia

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