Botswana towers over peers in trade reforms

CAPE TOWN: Botswana’s leading role in ratifying the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) will reduce costs associated with trading of its goods and services by an estimated 13.2 percent.

This was said by an official of the  Switzerland-based institution at a workshop held here this week.

Parliament ratified Botswana’s commitment to the TFA in June this year to become the second African state to do so and the eighth country in the 161-member trade organisation.

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