The political fallout from Trump’s reciprocal tariff regime has wider ramifications. Arrangements that were formed during ...

The fact that the G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors was able to release a joint statement after the ...

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The Trump administration called these measures “reciprocal”, asserting they mirrored and counteracted trade barriers faced by US exports. On 31 July, President Trump signed another Executive Order ...

What is a tariff? A tariff is simply a tax on imports, which is charged at the border when the imported goods enter the tariff-imposing country. The answer to ‘who pays the tariff?’ is a little more ...

South Africa’s state-owned electricity company, Eskom, is trying to protect its monopoly in the face of the envisaged transition to a liberalised energy market. The utility has gone to the Gauteng ...

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Third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDC3) The Third UN Conference on LLDCs, which took place in Awaza, Turkmenistan from 5-8 August 2025, brought together global ...