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Former Deputy Directors-General Director-General Roberto Azevêdo appointed four Deputy Directors-General in September 2013: Yonov Frederick Agah of Nigeria, Karl Brauner of Germany, David Shark of the United States and Yi Xiaozhun of China. David Shark served until September 2017 while Frederick Agah, Karl Brauner and Yi Xiaozhun remained in office until March 2021. Alan Wolff of the United States served as Deputy Director-General from September 2017 to March 2021. Four Deputy Directors-General served under Director-General Pascal Lamy from October 2005 to September 2013: Alejandro J...

Trade facilitation work in the area has been carried out by organizations such as UNCTAD, UN ECE (now through UN/CEFACT) or the WCO for several decades. Steadily growing volumes of trade, together with tariff levels at an all-time low after the conclusion of the Uruguay Round and modern technology available to significantly improve the management of cross-border trade and distribution of goods have lately created a strong interest from international business in the improveme...

Another milestone in the professionalism dexterity of the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Post Assurance Brokers Limited, Lekan Ajisafe, was recently unveiled after his insurance brokerage firm became the recipient of the prestigious ISO 9001:2015 Certification. The foremost insurance company was honoured with the Certification, having met the required standardisation of the International Accreditation Forum (IAF), joining the few Nigerian firms to have achieved such feat. While it was a huge achievement for the corporate existence of the firm, board members, clients, customers, sh...

01 Pic: Shutterstock The India-Mauritius Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement (CECPA), signed by both countries on February 22, 2021, has entered into force from today. The CECPA is the first trade Agreement signed by India with a country in Africa. It will provide greater market access for several Indian products at concessional duties in Mauritius. "Both sides have completed their internal legal procedures and the India-Mauritius CECPA will enter into force on Thursday, 01 April 2021," India's ministry of commerce and industry said in a statement. The CECPA i...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The UK Government and EU Commission trumpeted their last minute Brexit trade deal, struck at the end of December, as comprehensive, the biggest yet. Even allowing for the hyperbole of politicians, a closer inspection of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement ( TCA) renders these statements illusory for the pharma sector. In this article we summarise the extent to which the TCA really assists businesses in the sector to overcome the separation of the UK and the EU into two separate markets. 1. General Rules on Trade - Don’t me...