From Comesa to the East African Community (EAC), non-tariff barriers (NTBs) have become a recurring theme in regional trade.

Southeast Asian countries are promoting the use of local currencies in trade to reduce their reliance on the US dollar and ...

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa has launched a digital payments system to cut transaction costs by allowing businesses to settle deals in local currencies, it said on Thursday.

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Trade ministers attend the 3rd Inter-sessional Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Ministerial Meeting in Hanoi KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Chile and Bangladesh are ...

Fifteen Asia-Pacific economies formed the world's largest free trade bloc on Sunday, a China-backed deal that excludes the United States, which had left a rival Asia-Pacific grouping under President ...

China has formally joined a South American trade bloc as an observer in a move analysts said would strengthen its strategic ...

A livestock officer shows butchers how to remove skin from an animal while at the slaughter house.Skins and hides bring about Sh 128 million revenue. [FILE] Poorly equipped tanneries in countries like ...

From Comesa to the East African Community (EAC), non-tariff barriers (NTBs) have become a recurring theme in regional trade.

The move is part of a broader push to roll out local currency payment systems to reduce dependence on the dollar.