China’ Customs Tariff Commission announced earlier this week the removal of tariffs for taxable products from six African countries, State-run Xinhua news agency reports. In November last year, Beijing took similar measures for nine African countries namely Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea‑Bissau, Lesotho, Malawi, Sao Tome and Principe, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Three other African countries, Djibouti, Togo, and Rwanda had benefited from the same measures in September the same year. Chinese agricultural imports from Africa are significant and growing, and the country has become the continent’s second largest export market after the USA. China imported a record $5 billion of agricultural products from Africa in 2021.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 10, 2023 15:52 UTC