Tag: Agriculture
The New Zealand-China Free Trade Agreement: implications for South Africa
05 Jun 13 PublicationsTwo-way merchandise trade between New Zealand and China has increased since the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) was implemented, but this is a weak test of the FTA per se as virtually a...
Shall we samba? – an update
23 Jan 13 PublicationsThe world’s economic and trading environments have changed since the 2010 publication of tralac’s South Africa’s way ahead: Shall we samba? In this update to that p...
The Tripartite Free Trade Area – towards a new African integration paradigm?
03 May 12 PublicationsThis is tralac’s third book focusing on the Tripartite Free Trade Area (T-FTA). Following an economic assessment of the impact of T-FTA, with specific emphasis on agric...
Cape to Cairo – An Assessment of the Tripartite Free Trade Area
15 Jun 11 PublicationsIn recent years countries have increasingly focused on enhancing market access through regional integration in light of the stalled decade-long WTO Doha Round of trade of negotiati...
An assessment of agricultural sensitive products within the Cape to Cairo Tripartite Region
05 Apr 11 PublicationsThe issue of sensitive products for exemption from tariff liberalisation in the different countries/regional groupings may become an area of contention in the tripartite FTA negoti...
The economic and agricultural policy setting for the tripartite Free Trade Agreement
01 Mar 11 Publicationstralac has been collaborating with the National Agricultural Marketing Council (NAMC) in South Africa during the past year on a project which focuses on the proposed Tripartit...
Agricultural production in the tripartite region
01 Mar 11 Publicationstralac has been collaborating with the National Agricultural Marketing Council (NAMC) in South Africa during the past year on a project which focuses on the proposed Tripartite Fre...
Tripartite Agribusiness Opportunities for South Africa
01 Mar 11 Publicationstralac has been collaborating with the National Agricultural Marketing Council (NAMC) in South Africa during the past year on a project which focuses on the proposed Tripartite Fre...
Monitoring Regional Integration in Southern Africa Yearbook 2009
08 Dec 10 PublicationsDuring 2009 several important developments highlighted specific challenges for policy makers in Southern Africa. The global economic crisis continued to impact on the region in 200...
tralac-NAMC capacity building at Rhodes University, 30 August-3 September 2010
15 Oct 10 EventAs a part of the tralac-NAMC capacity building programme, a ‘Geek Week’ was held at Rhodes University during the last few days in August and the first few days in September. It...
South Africa’s way ahead: Shall we Samba?
14 Apr 10 PublicationsThe timing of the third book in tralac’s ‘South Africa’s way ahead’ series exploring trade policy options fits perfectly with the recent interest in examining both South Af...
The World Trade Organisation: an African Perspective, more than a decade later
19 Jan 10 PublicationsThe current Round of trade negotiations is the first ‘Development Round’. Given the challenges of addressing development issues in the context of trade negotiations in the WTO ...
Trade data analysis week held in Pretoria, South Africa, 16-20 November 2009
02 Dec 09 EventFrom 16 to 20 November, tralac, in collaboration with the National Agricultural Marketing Council (NAMC) held a trade data analysis week in Pretoria, South Africa. The trade data w...
The 47th Annual Conference of the Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa (AEASA)
02 Oct 09 Eventtralac recently participated in the recent 47th Annual Conference of the Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa (AEASA) held in Durban on 21-23 September 2009.
The the...
Capacity building at tralac – Geek Week, 30 March-3 April 2009
08 Apr 09 EventDuring the week March 30 to April 3, 2009, tralac hosted a team of analysts, including three from the National Department of Agriculture (DoA), one from the National Agricultu...
Report on WTO Regional Workshop on Agriculture for English-Speaking African Countries, Windhoek, 7-8 November 2007
21 May 08 EventAgricultural trade remains an important part of overall economic activity and continues to play a major role in domestic agricultural production and employment. Hence, it’s no su...