The trade you didn’t know existed
€1.9B of trade between Latvia and SADC since 2010.
Mapped.
12,000+ Eurostat records. 12 Latvian companies already operating across 16 Southern African markets. An atlas for a corridor nobody is building maps for.
§ THE COMPANIES · ALREADY THERE
Twelve Latvian companies are already operatingin Southern Africa. Most people don’t know they exist.
§ TIMELINE · 2020–PRESENT
Latvia–SADC trade over time.
Monthly exports and imports, sourced from Eurostat COMEXT (DS-045409). Weekly refreshed.
SOURCE · EUROSTAT COMEXT · DS-045409 · N=12,041
§ LATEST
From the corridor.
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The African Diaspora in Latvia: 50 Years of a Tiny Community
Around 30-60 Africans live in Latvia. The first arrived in 1973 as aviation students. Here's the story of AfroLat and the African-Latvian community.
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Lithuanian Ambassador meets DIRCO to strengthen Baltic-SA ties
Lithuania's Ambassador met South Africa's Chief Director for Baltic States at DIRCO.
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AFRLAT Media — Coming Soon
Video interviews and podcast episodes with the people behind the Latvia-SADC trade corridor.
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Quarterly Latvia–SADC brief. One email. Zero fluff.
Eurostat pulls. Company movements. Regulatory changes from both sides. Written by operators who actually work this corridor.