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Ambassador Marantis Travels to Mozambique to Advance Trade and Investment

23-January-2012

On January 18, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis traveled to Maputo, Mozambique to advance trade and investment relations between the United States and Mozambique. On January 19, Ambassador Marantis co-chaired, with Mozambican Minister of Industry and Commerce Armando Inroga, the third Council meeting of the United States-Mozambique Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA).

The TIFA Council works toward deepening and strengthening commercial ties, and facilitates a high-level dialogue to help increase commercial and investment opportunities by identifying and working to remove barriers to trade and investment flows between the United States and Mozambique.

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Priority Value Chains Assessment and Selection: Part One

17 January 2012

Value Chains

SATH is required by USAID to focus on three value chains that have the potential to not only increase competitiveness, trade and food security, but are also relevant regionally, across as many member-states within SADC as possible.

This assessment is the first part of a two-part regional value chain analysis. It focuses on identifying the key agriculturally-based value chains and assessing these value chains in terms of growth-potential and capability to benefit as many smallholders, small enterprises and the poor as possible. The value chains are also assessed according to whether or not they are capable of being scaled-up or replicated in other countries, given similarity within the respective agricultural economies.

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Road Freight Transport Services Diagnostic Study

31 December 2011

Trade in Services

Services are essential inputs into the production of goods and other services. Distorted services markets are tantamount to a tax on the overall economy as the effects of expensive and inefficient services are multiplied in the production of other goods and services. This is especially true for infrastructural services such as road freight services which represent the main arteries through which producers obtain their inputs and deliver their products to end users.

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