Where traders go for answers: Inside the Botswana Trade Portal

Anyone who has tried to export from Francistown or bring machinery in through Tlokweng knows the routine: phone calls, queues, a good deal of guessing, and days gone before a single product has moved.

The Botswana Investment and Trade Centre (BITC) developed the Botswana Trade Portal to cut the red tape and ease doing business. Import and export procedures, regulatory requirements, tariffs and duties, documentation, standards: it all sits on one platform under one roof. The portal also doubles as a Trade Facilitation Enquiry Point, so a trader who can’t find something can simply ask.