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August 2026 · Issue 1410 items · 18 markets
EU packaging rules apply, with PFAS limits on food-contact packaging
11 Aug · European Commission
In practice: Where you send physical product to the EU, get written confirmation from your packaging suppliers that food-contact packaging meets the PPWR PFAS limits: 25 ppb for any individual PFAS and 250 ppb for the sum by targeted analysis, excluding polymeric PFAS, and 50 ppm for total PFAS including polymeric. The limits catch non-intentionally added and polymeric PFAS, so a supplier saying it adds no PFAS is not the same as compliance, and there is no sell-through transition: packaging first placed on the EU market from 12 August 2026 must comply regardless of when it was made, even though labelling, recycled content and recyclability duties only phase in from 2028 and 2030.
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Argentina
Added the ENACOM RAMATEL note and confirmed the 1 September 2026 telecom-homologation date.
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Argentina
Refreshed the ARCA integrated-tariff references and tidied the customs-procedures section.
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Botswana trade guide
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£742mTotal UK–Botswana trade, four quarters to Q1 2026
£727mUK exports to Botswana, four quarters to Q1 2026
98thBotswana's rank among UK trading partners
Entering Botswana — UK Exporter Edition. A practical preview for UK exporters considering Botswana — a landlocked, SACU-member Southern African market where a Customs authority's own VAT citation has been wrong before, gateway ocean cargo must transit South Africa or Namibia under Customs control, and SACUM–UK EPA preference must be tested line by line, not assumed — one of 101 markets in the Copernicus Trade Guide Library.
Botswana combines a stable commercial base — mining, healthcare, telecommunications, vehicles, machinery, consumer goods and infrastructure demand — with figures and route claims that look settled but are not: a VAT rate with a three-move legislative history that even the tax authority's own pages have shown inconsistently, an EPA preference that depends on line-by-line origin evidence rather than SACU membership, and a landlocked gateway chain that has to be named node by node. None of these stop a shipment on their own; assuming the convenient figure, the assumed preference or the shortest-sounding route without a same-day written check does. The full guide converts every requirement into a checkable landed-cost and shipment workflow, with material claims traced to competent authorities and the 70-source Evidence Base.
Three checks before you quote
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14% is the current standard VAT rate — but the rate has moved three times since 2021 and some official pages still disagree
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SACUM–UK EPA preference is not automatic because goods ship from the UK
3
Every ocean movement is a South African or Namibian Customs transit, not a direct Botswana import
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