There exists enormous potential for increasing business relations between the USA and Africa, across a number of strategic sectors, especially agriculture, ICT, high-tech manufacturing, fintech, health, textile and digital economy. In view of this, Africa is geo-strategically repositioning...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of both national and regional trade facilitation capacities, issues, challenges and lessons, with a special interest in sustainably advancing West Africa's regional trade facilitation agenda. It examines the contributions of trade facilitation towards...

Introduction: Trade Relations, Business Opportunities and Policy Instruments for Fostering Africa's Trade -- Africa and the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement: State of Play, Implementation Challenges and Policy Recommendations in the Digital Era -- Trade Facilitation and SPS from an African...

In this digitally powered twenty-first century global economy, innovative policy solutions are being generated by leveraging on the role of technologies in unlocking trade relations, business opportunities, entrepreneurship and inclusive trade in Africa. One of the major goals of this book is to...

A trade war occurs if a country reacts against the other by increasing import tariffs or employing some other constraints on the rival country’s imports. A tariff usually is termed as a charge or levy obligated on the import of goods into a country. In a global context, a trade war could be...