Tehran has urged the BRICS bloc of 11 emerging economies, currently chaired by India, to intervene in the US-Israel war with Iran. Iran, which joined BRICS in 2024, is calling for a strong collective ...

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Registration to the tralac website is required to download publications. 2025 has been a challenging year for trade relations and the impacts of US tariff policy ...

Registration to the tralac website is required to download publications. Cross-border trade is a source of income and livelihoods for thousands of Africans. Over 70% ...

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Mining is expected to be a major driver of Africa’s development for the next few years. However, in many African jurisdictions, the industry is far from stable and needs to perform a complicated ...

Remittance flows to African countries continued to grow in both absolute and relative terms in 2024. A recent World Bank blog argued that ‘remittances have continued to outpace other types of external ...

The announcement by South Africa’s only surviving primary steel producer, ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA), that it intends shutting all its long steel operations in the country has been a long time ...

Registration to the tralac website is required to download publications. In this Trade Brief we discuss some key developments and events (some quite recent) which we ...

Perhaps one of the most pressing challenges facing the South African economy in 2015 is maintaining the structural integrity of its electricity generation network. The power system has come under ...