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Red tape, barriers blunt trade within Africa.
Africa is losing out on billions of dollars in potential earnings every year because of high trade barriers on the continent, the World Bank says.
SAA's first flight to China took off in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
WTO risks its future by keeping Doha talks alive.
Four out of five bottles of extra-virgin "Italian" olive oil are actually blended with foreign oil in a $6.5bn a year business, the La Repubblica newspaper has reported.
Protectionism is a growing threat as the global economy falters and could cost hundreds of billions of dollars, officials told a World Trade Organisation meeting.
South Africa recorded a higher-than-expected trade shortfall in October as exports fell.
Southern giants band together as rich countries stall.
China should allow domestic and foreign companies to make investment decisions without government interference, the US ambassador to Beijing says.
How SA will be hit if the eurozone crisis is not resolved.
A powerful US-based union has urged Washington to suspend a free trade pact with Bahrain in response to the Gulf nation's pro-reform protests crackdown.
Higher exports and a strong rand helped push SA into a trade surplus in March says the SA Revenue Service.
The stalled Doha round at the World Trade Organisation is putting the body on the edge of crisis, says Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies.
South Africa's membership of the Brics group of countries does not necessarily bring tangible benefits says Cosatu.
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