{"id":181023,"date":"2024-09-21T16:48:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T14:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-exporting-is-easier-said-than-done\/"},"modified":"2024-09-21T16:48:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T14:48:56","slug":"namibia-exporting-is-easier-said-than-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-exporting-is-easier-said-than-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Exporting Is Easier Said Than Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em>Over the past weeks officialdom and bureaucrats have vociferously urged Namibia&#8217;s small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to make use of preferences ushered in by the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">This means they must export goods and services to countries on the continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">There are many ways for a country to accelerate its economic growth and exporting goods and services is an important one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">As a business growth strategy, it makes sense for Namibia&#8217;s SMEs, servicing the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409200729.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past weeks officialdom and bureaucrats have vociferously urged Namibia&#8217;s small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to make use of preferences ushered in by the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement. This means they must export goods and services to countries on the continent. There are many ways for a country to accelerate its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":181024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,17881,19571,4706,724,257,254],"class_list":["post-181023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-easier","tag-exporting","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}