{"id":246526,"date":"2026-10-07T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T06:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-bill-tabled-to-tighten-namibias-grip-on-trade\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T08:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T06:00:30","slug":"namibia-bill-tabled-to-tighten-namibias-grip-on-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-bill-tabled-to-tighten-namibias-grip-on-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Bill Tabled to Tighten Namibia&#8217;s Grip On Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">International Relations and Trade Minister Selma Ashipala-Musavyi today tabled the International Trade Management Bill, 2026, in the National Assembly. It proposes an independent commission to oversee Namibia&#8217;s tariffs and international trade matters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The proposed International Trade Management Commission would give Namibia greater control over its trade interests. The Government wants an independent body to manage tariffs and strengthen the country&#8217;s ability to protect local businesses and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610070164.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>International Relations and Trade Minister Selma Ashipala-Musavyi today tabled the International Trade Management Bill, 2026, in the National Assembly. It proposes an independent commission to oversee Namibia&#8217;s tariffs and international trade matters. The proposed International Trade Management Commission would give Namibia greater control over its trade interests. The Government wants an independent body to manage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":246527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7292,6847,4706,724,9052,257,254,19725,24047,5979],"class_list":["post-246526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bill","tag-grip","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibias","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tabled","tag-tighten","tag-trade"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/246526","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=246526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}