See What Stops You At The Border
Customs registration, rules of origin, standards, payment, freight, and the buyer who may not be who they say they are. The AfCFTA Export Readiness Index checks all of it, the way a customs officer, a bank, and a foreign buyer each would, and tells you which gate is actually in front of you.
How much visibility do you actually have on your cross border counterparts before you make a business decision?
Forty nine of Africa’s fifty four countries have ratified the AfCFTA, every rule of origin was finalised in February 2026, and more than forty countries now issue certificates of origin. The tariff advantage is real and it is available now. Almost nobody in the MSME segment is claiming it.
This free AfCFTA export readiness assessment measures whether your business can actually use it. Thirty nine questions across ten pillars: customs registration, rules of origin, product standards, packaging, landed cost, payment and settlement, freight and Incoterms, buyer verification, and the organisational capacity to run an export line without dropping the domestic business. About eleven minutes. No documents needed.
You will get a score out of 100, one of six bands from Not Export Ready to Export Leader, five risk indicators, and the three gaps costing you the most. Where a gate blocks you completely, missing customs registration, an unconfirmed origin position, no way to be paid, the assessment says so directly and shows you exactly what clearing it is worth.
Read how the index works or browse the common questions. If you are not yet exporting and want your whole business assessed, start with the Business Confidence Index instead.
AfCFTA Export Readiness Index
Are you ready to trade across an African border, and do you know who is on the other side of it? About 11 minutes. Free. Your progress saves on your own device; nothing is sent to us unless you choose to share it.
A BizInfo Africa tool. Assessment framework and methodology by ASAP Information Services Limited, Nairobi.
