African trade advisory · Market access · Compliance
Unlocking Africa’s
Trade Potential
The AfCFTA opportunity
Africa’s single market is changing the way African businesses trade.
UNDERSTAND
Understand what the agreement actually changes for your tariff lines, and what it does not.
PREPARE
Assess whether your product, documentation and operations can meet origin requirements.
ENTER
Turn a first shipment into a sustainable cross-border operation.
GROW
Turn a first shipment into a sustainable cross-border operation.
The African Continental Free Trade Area creates room to expand beyond the domestic market, build regional value chains and reach customers who were previously behind a tariff wall. The difficulty is rarely ambition. It is documentation, origin rules and procedures that are not yet in place. We help businesses move from understanding the agreement to actually using it.
Discover Our AfCFTA ServicesEUDR & market access
Helping African exporters navigate EUDR
Prepare your supply chain for Europe’s evolving sustainability and traceability requirements.
African exporters increasingly have to demonstrate that a product is traceable to its plot of origin, legally produced, and not linked to deforestation. It applies most directly to cocoa, coffee, rubber, wood and palm oil. The obligation is documentary: what matters is whether the evidence exists and holds together.
Assess Your EUDR ReadinessIdentify products
Establish which of your products fall inside scope, and whether you act as operator, downstream operator or trader.
Map the supply chain
Trace every intermediary from the point of EU placement back to the producing plot.
Geolocation & traceability
Collect plot coordinates, with polygons for larger plots, and connect them to volumes and suppliers.
Assess risk
Document the risk of non-compliance across country, sub-national, supply chain and data-reliability factors.
Prepare due diligence
Document the risk of non-compliance across country, sub-national, supply chain and data-reliability factors.
Access the EU market
Document the risk of non-compliance across country, sub-national, supply chain and data-reliability factors.
Helping African exporters navigate EUDR
Prepare your supply chain for Europe’s evolving sustainability and traceability requirements.
African exporters increasingly have to demonstrate that a product is traceable to its plot of origin, legally produced, and not linked to deforestation. It applies most directly to cocoa, coffee, rubber, wood and palm oil. The obligation is documentary: what matters is whether the evidence exists and holds together.
Assess Your EUDR ReadinessEUDR & market access
Identify products
Establish which of your products fall inside scope, and whether you act as operator, downstream operator or trader.
Map the supply chain
Trace every intermediary from the point of EU placement back to the producing plot.
Geolocation & traceability
Collect plot coordinates, with polygons for larger plots, and connect them to volumes and suppliers.
Assess risk
Document the risk of non-compliance across country, sub-national, supply chain and data-reliability factors.
Prepare due diligence
Document the risk of non-compliance across country, sub-national, supply chain and data-reliability factors.
Access the EU market
Document the risk of non-compliance across country, sub-national, supply chain and data-reliability factors.
Why Balia ConsultingAdvice that stays
Advice that stays
close to the shipment.
From a single-product exporter to a ministry designing trade policy, the underlying question is the same: what does this market require, and can we evidence it?
Who we serve
Organisations we work with
From a single-product exporter to a ministry designing trade policy, the underlying question is the same: what does this market require, and can we evidence it?