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The potential advantages of regional integration in trade are many including the ability to realize economies of scale, compete on a broader scale and increase overall economic efficiency. SATH works throughout the SADC region both at the Secretariat and Member State level to assist in the effective implementation of SADC’s regional integration program.

Value Chains (38)

Maize (10), Cotton, Textiles & Clothing (17), Soy (14), Groundnuts (7)

Financial Products & Services (7)

AGOA (11)

Export Credit Insurance Corporation of South Africa – Upgrade of Small and Medium Transaction Product Offering

03 May 2012

Competitiveness | Financial Products & Services

The overall objective of this report is to identify ways in which the Export Credit Insurance Corporation (ECIC) of South Africa's Small and Medium Transaction (SMT) can improve its product offering and its uptake.
Fact finding carried out with financial intermediaries (FIs), exporters and buyers in South Africa (SA), Zambia and Mozambique revealed that: the SMT product would be utilized much more if the implementation process leading to closing is streamlined and simplified; South African FIs are keen to provide, and FIs in Zambia and Mozambique are keen to receive, long-term loans with ECIC cover, which could fund medium and long-term loans to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in those countries that would finance importation of South African goods; non-bank FIs in SA are very interested in partnering with ECIC; and SA exporters need better structured and targeted pre-shipment, working capital financing.

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Study on Private Equity in Agribusiness in Southern Africa

03 May 2012

Competitiveness | Financial Products & Services

The overall objective of this report is to identify potential interventions to enhance the capacity of newly created private equity funds in agriculture and/or agribusiness in Africa, especially the stimulation of technical assistance to agricultural value chains.

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Let Africa Trade With Africa

02 May 2012

In Africa, non-tariff trade barriers raise transaction costs and limit the movement of goods, services, people and capital across borders. To further development, African governments must embrace regional integration, break down these barriers and help Africans trade with each other.

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First Quarter Report Financial Year 2012

23 February 2012

Competitiveness | About SATH | Regional Integration

During this quarter, SATH completed several technical reports, including an analysis of recent global and regional experience to draw lessons about the impacts of prevalent domestic trade policies on food security; an analysis of the soy value chain; an assessment of the cotton, textile and apparel industries in Southern Africa; and a border operations assessment at Kasumbalesa between Zambia and the DRC.

Among others, SATH also continued to roll out its integrated border management program, established private sector trade linkages, trained several public and private sector officials and awarded several grants.

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Trade Hub Improves Competitiveness

15 December 2011

Competitiveness | Trade Facilitation

Southern African economies are now exporting more diverse products to more places.

SATH’s assistance to Keedo clothing, a high-end children’s clothing company exporting to the US ensured that more than 200 families in the Cape townships kept their incomes. Keedo’s manufacturing suppliers are women-owned, small operations.