Mr. John Ssempebwa, the director trade at Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU) makes numerous trade-related journeys in and out of Uganda for conferences and meetings. On one such journey, he met a lady at Entebbe International Airport. She was on

A top NIC official talks to East African Business Week. Excerpts below.

Uganda car importers are rushing to Mombasa to bring in and sell their vehicles before the financial year ends. The budget which was read on June 12th to the Nation increased environmental levy from 10% to 20% on used cars

The profile of the US-Kenya bilateral trade looks headed for a lift as traders prepare to tap into fresh opportunities that are expected to come with the new open-sky treaty between the two nations.

Kenya will import one million bags of maize from Zambia to boost its stock and avert a looming shortage in the second half of the year.

Kigali has just played host to the East Africa Investment Conference on June 26 to 28, 2008, taking place back-on-back with the Summit of the EAC Heads of States.

Poor transport and communications infrastructure, security concerns and inefficient administration are among the main obstacles to international trade in East Africa, according to a report by the World Economic Forum.

Kenya Airways has challenged the Tanzania horticultural industry to increase its volume of cargo so as to attract airfreight in the country.

Legislators here have called on government to put a ban on food exports to avoid a situation where all the country's grain will be shipped out.

The region's Big Men, who gathered in Kigali last week for the first East African Investment Conference, said many things about what it will take to make ours one big, happy, rich common market.

Trade within the East African Community has increased by 20 per cent since 2004, says the chairperson of the EAC Council of Ministers Eriya Kategaya.

The Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) is to increase storage charges for all containers at the Dar es Salaam port to discourage port users from turning it into a storage facility.

The Deputy Comptroller of Custom Service (Tariff and Trade), Mr. Ezekiel Okeniyi has said that the proposed 48 hours clearance of goods from the ports is possible in Nigeria, but quickly added that a lot need to be done to

WHILE acrimony persists over trade talks with the European Union (EU), the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) has had a breakthrough with bilateral negotiations with the Latin American trade bloc Mercosur.