Lesotho Revenue Authority to acquire two AS&E ZBV Mobile Screening Systems
AS&E’s Cargo and vehicle screening system deployed in 55 countries American Science and Engineering, Inc. (“AS&E”), has announced the receipt of an order for two ZBV® mobile screening systems...
View ArticleSwaziland Loses U.S. Trade Benefits
Swaziland has lost its preferential trading status with the United States. US President Barack Obama announced (26 June 2014) that the kingdom would lose its benefits under the African Growth and...
View ArticleTime to pull the plug on SACU?
Peter Fabricus, Foreign Editor, Independent Newspapers through the Institute of Security Studies writes an insightful and balanced article on the history and current state of the Southern African...
View ArticleWCO – Sub-Saharan Africa Customs Modernization Programme Newsletter
Herewith a new newsletter informing about developments of Capacity Building Projects in Sub- Saharan African Customs Unions as sponsored by the government of Sweden. The project includes the WCO- EAC...
View ArticleThe SACU Utility Block – My Export is Your Entry
Representatives from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) gathered in Johannesburg, South Africa recently to refine requirements towards the development IT connectivity and electronic data...
View ArticleIs the Latest FTA Another Booby Prize for Africa?
Around 2008, most Southern African countries began to realise that the great ambition found on the SADC website at that time of moving from a SADC free trade area to a customs union by 2012 was not...
View ArticleSouth Africa – WCO ESA Regional Workshop on TFA implementation
The WCO Regional Workshop on Strategic Initiatives for Trade Facilitation and the Implementation of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) – Mercator Programme – for the WCO East and Southern...
View ArticleWCO supported Sub – Saharan Africa Customs Modernization Programmes – 3rd...
The WCO – Sub – Saharan African Customs Modernization Programme funded by the government of Sweden comprises four projects, namely the WCO- EAC CREATe , the WCO– SACU Connect, the WCO– WACAM and the...
View ArticleSACU – All’s not fair in proposed Customs Union reforms
The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) is an almost invisible organisation. Yet it has arguably had a profound impact on South Africa’s economic and even political relations with its much smaller...
View ArticleWCO News – February 2018
This edition of WCO News features a special dossier on the theme chosen by the WCO for 2018, namely “A secure business environment for economic development”, with articles presenting initiatives and...
View ArticleBrexit and Southern Africa – no trade impact envisaged
Reuters reports that Britain has agreed a deal with six southern African countries including South Africa, the continent’s most developed economy, that will ensure continuity of trade conditions after...
View ArticleWCO supports SARS with AEO programme implementation
Under the framework of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) Customs Modernization Programme, funded by the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office, WCO experts were invited to lead an AEO...
View ArticleIndia revives Preferential Trade Agreement initiative with SACU
Discussions between Southern African Customs Union (SACU) [South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini] and India to achieve a Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) have been revived with the two...
View ArticleNew terminal at Walvis Bay becomes fully operational
The new container terminal at the Namibian Port of Walvis Bay is now fully operational, according to a report by the African Development Bank (ADB). In a statement, the ADB said the terminal was...
View ArticleSARS and SACU host the Regional AEO Awareness Engagement Session, 29-31 May 2023
The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) and SARS will host a Regional Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) Awareness Engagement Session from 29 to 31 May 2023 at Emperor’s Palace in Johannesburg to...
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