Latest Announcements
Kindly be informed that the local supply of oranges has increased and able to satisfy the local requirements. This therefore, serves to notify your office to impose restriction of importation of the above mentioned crop in your district with effect from 17th June 2024 until end of August 2024....Read
Botswana Investment and Trade Centre (BITC) seeks Expressions of Interest (EOI) from exporters and potential exporters for consideration into the Botswana Exporter Development Programme (BEDP). This programme focuses on developing new local exporters and assisting existing ones to expand and is designed to address constraints that firms face in trying to develop production for exports. BEDP envisages a comprehensive support through providing targeted interventions to build the capacity of potential and current exporters, enhancing their competitiveness, linking them to new clients, and improving the business environment for exporters....Read
The Ministry of Agriculture Informs the general public and the farming community that Drosophila suzukii Matsumura (Spotted Wing Drosophila) has been detected in South Africa. Drosophila suzukii Matsumura is a Fruit fly of quarantine economic importance....Read
Latest News
Trade measures introduced by G20 economies have become more restrictive in recent months, according to the 30th WTO Trade Monitoring Report on G20 trade measures issued on 18 December. The report shows that between mid-May and mid-October 2023, G20 economies introduced more trade-restrictive than trade-facilitating measures on goods, although the value of traded merchandise covered by facilitating measures continued to exceed that covered by restrictions. Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala called on the G20 to show leadership and contribute to economic stability and growth by unwinding recent and longstanding restrictions on trade....Read
Botswana has received unsolicited bids from investors to build a rail line to a Namibian port that will help avoid South Africa and its disintegrating logistics network. The 1 500 km Trans-Kalahari Railway project is gathering momentum as Transnet, the State rail and ports monopoly in Botswana’s southern neighbour, struggles to ship goods, according to Transport and Public Works Minister Eric Molale....Read
All major trading economies saw imports and exports rise above pre-pandemic levels in the fourth quarter of 2021, with trade in goods increasing more strongly in the developing world than in developed countries....Read