Trade facilitation, aimed at enhancing intra-African trade, is still too limited. To this end, trade facilitation measures have to be regional in focus, aligned to national strategies and effectively implemented and communicated to ensure that they enhance the easy and profitability of doing business across the continent. Increased intra-African trade and by extension regional integration on the continent has a great potential to fill the huge infrastructural gap. This Brief, thus, points out the need to build capacities at the national and regional level for trade facilitation, giving insights on the specific capacities required for this purpose.