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Stories that are tagged 'Rwanda'

East African States Boost Appeal With Red Tape Cuts
4/16/2012
A new report shows that the business environment in all five economies of the East African Community - Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda - improved substantially in 2010-11, with the implementation of significant regulatory reforms, including to ease the burden of paying taxes.
Gibraltar Continues Financial Sector Support To Africa
3/30/2012
Gibraltar's Financial Services Commission has announced the recent completion of two further assignments as part of an initiative to assist international improvements in financial sector supervision, particularly in African nations.
COMESA Pushes For DTAs Between Member States
2/14/2012
Earlier this month, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa held a three-day forum in Lusaka which attracted officials from its member states who are involved in negotiating double taxation agreements.
LDCs Request Extension To Implement IP Frameworks
11/28/2011
Among draft decisions on intellectual property rights set to be tabled at the World Trade Organisation's December ministerial, concessions have been proposed for least developed countries in their efforts to introduce WTO-compliant frameworks for the protection of intellectual property rights.
Problems Foreseen For African Tripartite FTA
11/8/2011
The South African Minister of Trade and Industry, Rob Davies, has expressed the opinion that the planned roll out of the proposed African tripartite free trade agreement may 'hit a snag' when negotiating on trade in manufactured goods between the member countries.
ACP States Risk Losing Duty-Free Access To EU
10/7/2011
The European Commission is proposing to amend the Market Access Regulation governing the trade conditions for certain developing countries that have negotiated, with the European Union, Economic Partnership Agreements which have yet to be signed and ratified.
US Senate Approves Investment Treaty With Rwanda
9/30/2011
The United States Senate, in what is hoped will be a major step forward in expanding trade and investment relations with Rwanda, has unanimously approved the United States-Rwanda Bilateral Investment Treaty.
Gibraltar Assists African Financial Services Regulators
9/23/2011
The Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission, David Parody, has recently returned from Mombasa, Kenya, where he delivered a workshop for the Board of the Kenyan Insurance Regulatory Authority funded by the Authority itself.
Switzerland Tops WEF Competitiveness Index
9/9/2011
Switzerland tops the overall rankings in the Global Competitiveness Report for 2011-2012, released on September 7 by the World Economic Forum.
South Africa Plugs Tripartite FTA
8/26/2011
In the opinion of South Africa’s Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Elizabeth Thabethe, the recent agreement to launch talks to establish a tripartite free trade agreement between several African nations has made it more urgent to promote intra-African trade.
EAC Launches Report On Improving East African Business Regulations
8/26/2011
The East African Community has launched a report prepared by the International Finance Corporation and the World Bank which points out that, if the best of East African regulations and procedures were implemented across the board, the business regulatory environment in East Africa would be comparable to that in Japan.
COMESA Reviews Progress On Customs Union
8/9/2011
A third meeting was held this month in Lusaka by the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa to study the progress made towards having a fully implemented Customs Union by June 2012.
African Leaders Launch Tripartite FTA Talks
6/16/2011
A leaders’ summit of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, the East African Community and the Southern African Development Community, held in Johannesburg on June 11 and 12, has agreed to formally launch negotiations to establish a tripartite free trade agreement.
South Africa To Discuss Tripartite FTA
6/9/2011
A summit of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, the East African Community and the Southern African Development Community will be held in Pretoria on June 11 and 12 to discuss the progress made towards a tripartite free trade agreement (FTA).
Tripartite African Trade Talks Show Progress
5/18/2011
Ministers from countries within the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, the East African Community and the Southern African Development Community met recently in Lusaka to discuss the progress made towards the proposed tripartite free trade agreement.
Tripartite African Trade Talks To Start By Mid-2011
3/11/2011
South Africa’s Minister of Trade and Industry, Rob Davies, has said that negotiations for the development of a free trade agreement between the Southern African Development Community, the East African Community and the Common Market for East African States will commence towards the middle of 2011.
Switzerland Tops Competitiveness League
9/13/2010
Switzerland has claimed top spot in The Global Competitiveness Report 2010-2011, as released by the World Economic Forum on September 9. In the rankings, the United States has fallen two places to fourth position, overtaken by Sweden (2nd) and Singapore (3rd), after already ceding the top place to Switzerland last year.
South Africa's DTAs With Mexico, Rwanda Become Effective
9/1/2010
The bilateral double taxation agreements completed by South Africa with Mexico and Rwanda have both been passed by parliament and entered into force recently, the South African Revenue Service announced on August 31.
Singapore Expands Open Skies Agreement Network
7/23/2010
Singapore has announced the signing of Open Skies Agreements with Barbados, Brazil, Jamaica and Rwanda, at the International Civil Aviation Organisation Air Services Negotiation Conference 2010, held earlier this month in Jamaica.
China Cuts Import Tariffs For African Countries
7/7/2010
China’s Ministry of Commerce has announced that, following an exchange of letters, 60% of imports from 26 of Africa’s least developed countries are duty free with effect from July 1, 2010.
EAC Common Market Enters Into Force
6/30/2010
A statement by the East African Community Secretary General, Juma V. Mwapachu, on the occasion of the commencement of its Common Market on July 1, called on the partner states to start the hard work of exploiting all available opportunities arising from it.
Work Needed On EAC Customs Union
5/31/2010
In a speech to the Second East African Legislative Assembly in Nairobi, the President of Tanzania, Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, while stressing the positive impact made by the Customs Union of the East African Community since its launch on January 1, 2010, emphasized that there was still some work to be done.

 

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