Following the notification of suspicion of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in the Ngaka Modiri District, North West Province in South Africa, farmers and stakeholders are informed of the following changes in the movement protocol of FMD susceptible livestock affecting Ramatlabama, Pitsane, Phitshane-Molopo, Mokatako, Mabule and Hebron extension areas FMD susceptible livestock shall not be moved out of their respective extension areas except for livestock going for direct slaughter at approved abattoirs and slaughter facilities for local market only....Read
The Ministry of Agriculture wishes to inform the general public, the farming community and all other stakeholders, that the import restriction imposed on selected horticultural commodities has been revised ...Read
The Botswana Bureau of Standards (BOBS), a parastatal organization responsible for the development of Botswana Standards and coordinating quality assurance activities in Botswana, is implementing the Standards (Import Inspections) Regulations (SIIR) of 2008. The SIIR have been reviewed and replaced by the Standards (Compulsory Standards) Regulations, SCSR, of 2023, which were gazetted in June 2023....Read
Trade measures introduced by G20 economies have become more restrictive in recent months, according to the 30th WTO Trade Monitoring Report on G20 trade measures issued on 18 December. The report shows that between mid-May and mid-October 2023, G20 economies introduced more trade-restrictive than trade-facilitating measures on goods, although the value of traded merchandise covered by facilitating measures continued to exceed that covered by restrictions. Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala called on the G20 to show leadership and contribute to economic stability and growth by unwinding recent and longstanding restrictions on trade....Read
Botswana has received unsolicited bids from investors to build a rail line to a Namibian port that will help avoid South Africa and its disintegrating logistics network. The 1 500 km Trans-Kalahari Railway project is gathering momentum as Transnet, the State rail and ports monopoly in Botswana’s southern neighbour, struggles to ship goods, according to Transport and Public Works Minister Eric Molale....Read
All major trading economies saw imports and exports rise above pre-pandemic levels in the fourth quarter of 2021, with trade in goods increasing more strongly in the developing world than in developed countries....Read