Via the IPRA Trade Helpdesk, you will also find trade statistics and can check how much of your product each country has imported since 2010 until to date and from where. It’s all here: http://trade.ipraa.org/tradehelp/.  Via this platform, exporters/importers and carriers can interact and obtain competitive freight prices; the platform also includes the logistics indicators that measure the efficiency of customs posts in Africa as well as of the carriers. The objective is to reduce the time it takes to move freight between African countries as well as the cost, and to avoid backhaul problems. For your B2B needs, there are links to chambers of commerce around the world (including the EU Chambers of commerce and industry), business directories and market places.

At the IPRA Trade HelpDesk you will also find resources related to trade facilitation, supply chain security and coordinated border management, among others. The most recent research is entitled ‘Improving the border agency cooperation among the AfCFTA state parties for facilitating trade’.