{"id":67902,"date":"2018-07-03T07:50:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T05:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=67902"},"modified":"2018-07-03T07:50:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T05:50:42","slug":"uk-for-improved-trade-with-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/07\/03\/uk-for-improved-trade-with-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"UK for improved trade with Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>BY CHIMWEMWE MANGAZI:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The newly-appointed United Kingdom\u2019s (UK) Trade Commissioner for Africa, Emma Wade-Smith, has reiterated her country\u2019s commitment to boost its trade and investment relationship with African countries.<\/p>\n<p>Wade-Smith, a senior diplomat and trade expert of 20 years, was appointed UK\u2019s Trade Commissioner for the continent last week.<\/p>\n<p>She has served in Brussels, Chile, Mexico, Washington, and more recently in Africa as Regional Trade Director at the Department of International Trade.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Thursday, the Department of International Trade said the appointment would build on the UK\u2019s position as a leading partner for Africa\u2019s peace, security and prosperity \u2013 supporting trade, investment and job growth.<\/p>\n<p>Wade-Smith then reaffirmed UK\u2019s commitment to building a mutually-beneficial and resilient trade relation with African economies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will put partnerships at the heart of our business relationships, building on the work we are already doing to transform our shared entrepreneurial spirit into jobs and growth in the UK and across Africa,\u201d Wade-Smith said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>British High Commissioner to Malawi, Holly Tett, said trade remains at the heart of the UK government\u2019s approach to Africa.<\/p>\n<p>She then committed to play a role in ensuring that Malawi also benefits from the existing trading opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith young and growing populations, and the world\u2019s fastest-growing middle class, there is huge potential for British businesses to create modern trading partnerships across Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmma will help unlock the continent\u2019s potential, supporting jobs, growth and prosperity in the UK and Africa, including Malawi,\u201d Tett said.<\/p>\n<p>More than \u00a328 billion of goods and services were traded between the UK and African countries in 2016 alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY CHIMWEMWE MANGAZI: The newly-appointed United Kingdom\u2019s (UK) Trade Commissioner for Africa, Emma Wade-Smith, has reiterated her country\u2019s commitment to boost its trade and investment relationship with African countries. Wade-Smith, a senior diplomat and trade expert of 20 years, was appointed UK\u2019s Trade Commissioner for the continent last week. She has served in Brussels, Chile, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":67905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67906,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67902\/revisions\/67906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}