Trade/Commerce Posts filed under Trade/Commerce.
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On Lock: Senegal’s Customs Success Story Meets a Due Process Question
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: Senegal’s digital customs infrastructure …
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New Tools, Old Deal: Senegal & Mali’s 60-Year-Old Transit Framework Gets a 2026 Upgrade
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: Senegal and Mali have been formally cooperating…
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No Refs on the Court: Why WTO’s Dispute System Can’t Actually Referee Anyone’s Tariff Fights Right Now
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: This isn’t really a story about whether W…
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Double Billed: The Second Layer of Cost Behind AES’s New Development Bank
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: This blog has already documented what the 0.5% …
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Still Countin’: ECOWAS’s Fifth Attempt at a Single Currency Launch Date
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: 2027 isn’t ECOWAS’s first target da…
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Zero Out of Fifteen: The Irony Behind ECOWAS’s Free Movement Push
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: ECOWAS has spent decades being held up as the A…
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Sleeping on It: How 15 Dormant Years Cost Orano Its Biggest Niger Deposit
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: Orano held the rights to one of the largest ura…
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Splitting the Check: How Nigeria Was Secretly Subsidizing Its Neighbors’ Fuel
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: For years, Nigerian taxpayers were funding arti…
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Technically Dead: Ghana’s AGOA Obituary & the Pivot to AfCFTA
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: When a sitting head of state publicly calls a 2…
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The “Co-operation Between Banks in West Africa”: The 1945 Agreement Behind a 44-Year Cartel
A Historical In-depth Discovery of Trade in West Africa Since 1896 Here’s what you need to know: Most historical accounts of colonial-era bankin…