Briefing Paper

Fascilitating Trade in a Security Conscious World

“This briefing explores how the new security measures adopted by Africa’s key trading partners after the September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States could adversely affect our export competitiveness and economic growth. More importantly, it examines ways in which a virtuous relationship between the security imperative and trade facilitation could be struck at a global level. It also looks at ways African governments and suppliers should respond to avoid further marginalisation.”