{"id":75621,"date":"2026-04-14T03:38:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T03:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/75621\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T03:38:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T03:38:35","slug":"intra-african-trade-230-billion-expected-in-2026-says-afreximbank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/75621\/","title":{"rendered":"Intra-African trade: $230 billion expected in 2026, says Afreximbank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"780\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-6-780x470.png\" class=\"attachment-jannah-image-post size-jannah-image-post wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" data-main-img=\"1\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \u00a9Afreximbank<\/p>\n<p>Intra-African trade is projected to reach $230 billion in 2026, up 10% from $210 billion in 2025, according to the\u00a0African Trade and Economic Outlook 2026\u00a0published in late March by\u00a0Afreximbank. This growth is driven by the expansion of the\u00a0ZLECAf\u00a0and the rollout of the\u00a0PAPSS, which is expected to reduce currency conversion costs by 20\u201330%. Intra-African trade is forecast to account for 16% of total trade, estimated at around $1.4 trillion. However, exports remain dominated by commodities at 60\u201370%, and the continent still represents only about 3% of global exports. Untapped export potential is estimated at $434 billion, highlighting the need for deeper structural transformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a9Afreximbank Intra-African trade is projected to reach $230 billion in 2026, up 10% from $210 billion in 2025,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8185,948,27993,6,27994,2994,27995,21827,27996],"class_list":{"0":"post-75621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afrique","8":"tag-afcfta","9":"tag-afreximbank","10":"tag-african-economy","11":"tag-afrique","12":"tag-economic-integration","13":"tag-exports","14":"tag-intra-african-trade","15":"tag-papss","16":"tag-structural-transformation"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@afrique\/116400980320584395","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}