Tag: AGOA
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28 Jul 22 NewsLocal
Logistics Performance Index: Nigeria ranks lowest In West Africa — Experts (Tribune Online)
The Managing Director/CEO, Analyst Data Service Ltd, Dr Afolabi Olowo-okere, h...
The U.S. anti-dumping investigation against lemon juice exports from South Africa: background, recent updates and next steps
30 May 22 PublicationsSouth African producers and exporters of lemon juice (and no doubt exporters of citrus fruit) received an unwelcome surprise early January 2022 that a California-based company prod...
The U.S. anti-dumping investigation against lemon juice exports from South Africa: background, recent updates and next steps
27 May 22 BlogSouth African producers and exporters of lemon juice (and no doubt exporters of citrus fruit) received an unwelcome surprise early January 2022 that a California-based company prod...
South African lemon juice exports face American anti-dumping duties
07 Mar 22 BlogOn December 30, 2021, the United States International Trade Commission (USITC or I.T.C.) received a request from Ventura Coastal LLC, an American firm, to undertake an investigatio...
Update on the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and related developments
23 Feb 22 BlogAGOA remains the cornerstone of Africa-U.S. preferential market access, and the legislation accounts for virtually all of Sub-Saharan Africa’s non-MFN exports to the U.S. Through...
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27 Jan 22 NewsCountry-related news
SARS Customs scales up digital transformation (SAnews)
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) Customs division will scale up digital transformation and inc...
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21 Jan 22 NewsCountry news
South Africa’s Covid-19 Response Gets a $750 Million Boost (World Bank)
The World Bank Group Board of Executive Directors today approved South Africa’s request f...
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22 Nov 21 NewsNational
Boosting industrialisation and trade competitiveness in SA requires an alternative to state-owned enterprises (SOEs) (IOL)
THE Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement 2021 a...
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12 May 21 NewsNational trade and trade-related news
Sugar Masterplan starting to uplift industry – DTIC (Engineering News)
The South African sugarcane industry has experienced a sharp declin...
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11 May 21 NewsNational trade and trade-related news
Going digital during pandemic signals a positive change for SMMEs – SBI (Eyewitness News)
While thousands of small businesses crumbled und...
Trade remedies and trade disputes: the case of the US-EU large aircraft dispute, and how these disputes can offer opportunities for South Africa’s wine exports to the United States
26 Apr 21 BlogOne of the primary intentions of WTO laws is to create a more even and fair playing field with respect to trade between WTO member states, and to ensure that trade takes place on a...
Trade remedies can offer export opportunities to unrelated parties: the case of the US-EU large aircraft dispute and opportunities for South Africa’s wine exports to the US
19 Apr 21 PublicationsTrade remedies and safeguards are key exceptions to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) principles of non-discrimination and transparency through binding commitments on tariffs and ...
Kenya-United States FTA: From AGOA towards a bilateral Free Trade Area
11 Dec 20 BlogIn 2018, Kenya’s president Uhuru Kenyatta paid the United States an official state visit. This lead to a Bilateral Strategic Dialogue that would meet bi-annually, followed not lo...
How will Africa engage the new US Administration about Trade Issues?
11 Dec 20 BlogIt has been announced that the African Union (AU) Ministers of Trade (AMOT) will be requested to engage the new US Administration on “negotiations” for a successor trade a...
What could the Biden victory mean for Africa?
11 Nov 20 BlogThe Biden administration will have many urgent matters in its in-tray. Relations with specific foreign governments might not be at the top of that stack, but the departure of Presi...
SACUM-UK EPA and SA-US Trade Relations, including AGOA
28 Oct 20 NewsPresentation by Ambassador Xavier Carim, Deputy Director General, Trade Policy, Negotiations and Cooperation Branch at the dtic, to the Select Committee on Trade and Industry, Econ...
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23 Sep 20 NewsNational news
Retail trade confidence edged up in Q3 – Bureau for Economic Research (Business Report)
The Bureau for Economic Research (BER) on Monday said that retail trade co...
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04 Sep 20 NewsNational news
Pace of reform to determine shape of SA’s capital-equipment export recovery (Engineering News)
About 40% of capital equipment exported from South Africa has been ...
How Trade Arrangements such as AGOA can drive Industrialisation in Less Developed Africa
03 Sep 20 BlogThe African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is an act of the United States Congress, passed in 2000 and with the purpose of granting qualifying sub-Saharan African (SSA) countrie...
May AfCFTA State Parties conclude new Trade Agreements?
28 Jul 20 BlogIn order to answer the question posed above one has to study the legal instruments adopted for the purpose of establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). An impo...