Tag: AfCFTA
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23 Jan 17 Resourcetralac Regional Roundtable: Cape Town, 7 February 2017
20 Jan 17 Eventtralac hosted a regional roundtable in Cape Town to consider global, African, and South African trade and trade-related developments of the past year and prospects for 2017.
This ...
African Union Legal Resources and Policy Documents
20 Jan 17 ResourceData, ICT developments and the Continental Free Trade Area
18 Jan 17 DiscussionTarik Oguz, tralac Research Advisor – Information and Communication Technologies, comments on the inaugural UN World Data Forum held in Cape Town and the ongoing CFTA negotiation...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
16 Jan 17 NewsThe 7th meeting of Continental Free Trade Area Continental Task force took place last week in Nairobi
Mr Nadir Merah, Acting Director and Head of Trade Division of the Department ...
African Union Commission to enhance the proposed options for CFTA negotiations modalities
16 Jan 17 NewsAfrican Union Commission (AUC) Experts in Trade-related issues were brainstorming in Nairobi, Kenya, within the framework of the 7th meeting of Continental Free Trade Area Continen...
African trade and integration
04 Jan 17 Themestralac’s primary aim is to help build capacity for government officials, policymakers, and regional organisations to more adequately address the most pressing trade matters facin...
Fast-tracking the Continental Free Trade Area: Regional economic communities as building blocks
02 Dec 16 NewsExtracts from the presentation made by Mr. Prudence Sebahizi, Chief Technical advisor on the CFTA and Head of the CFTA Negotiations Support Unit, during the Africa Trade Forum at A...
African Civil Society Statement on the Continental Free Trade Agenda at Africa Trade Week 2016
28 Nov 16 NewsFrom 26 to 27 November, 2016, civil society organisations from Africa met under the umbrella of the Africa Trade Network in Addis Ababa, in advance of the Africa Trade Week and the...
Continental Wide Service Liberalization within Africa
23 Nov 16 PublicationsFollowing on from their initial tralac Trade Brief “Service Liberalization within Africa – Trying to Quantify the Potential Impact”, the authors utilize the model, database a...
Designing Sector Development Strategies and Regulatory Frameworks for the CFTA
23 Nov 16 DiscussionJB Cronjé, tralac Researcher, comments on the trade in services negotiating agenda under the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA)
In 2011, African Union (AU) Members embarked ...
A Continental Free Trade Area to support Africa’s industrial development objectives? tralac Roundtable, 17-18 November 2016
01 Nov 16 Eventtralac hosted a roundtable in Cape Town to consider Africa’s quest for industrial development and diversification, and the implications for the continent’s integration agenda. ...
Subsidiarity: Should it be included as a guideline for the CFTA Negotiations?
27 Oct 16 PublicationsAfrica’s integration agenda has always been an ambitious one. The typical approach is to target trade in goods and for the Member States to determine, in advance, the timelines f...
Africa Trade Week 2016: The Continental Free Trade Area and trade facilitation
27 Oct 16 NewsAdvancing Socio-Economic Structural Transformation through Intra-Africa Trade
Africa Trade Week 2016 will be held at the African Union Head Quarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from...
How can trade policy be used to transform African livelihoods?
24 Oct 16 NewsHow can African countries and the international community overcome the existing challenges to building the poverty-reducing trade needed to meet the poverty-related Sustainable Dev...
African Union Commission Services Sector Development Workshop – Addis Ababa, 1 October 2016
12 Oct 16 EventOn 1 October 2016, tralac Research Advisor Ashly Hope presented to the African Union Commission’s Workshop on the AU Services Sector Development Programme 2016-2020. The presenta...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
10 Oct 16 NewsCOMESA’s Intergovernmental Committee starts Policy Week proceedings (COMESA)
The Intergovernmental Committee that brings together Permanent/Principal Secretaries was the first t...
Sector development, regulation and the CFTA: a look at the financial sector
07 Oct 16 DiscussionAshly Hope, tralac Research Advisor, comments on financial sector regulation and how the Continental Free Trade Area negotiations could be used to help realise wider development ob...
What negotiating modalities should be adopted to achieve CFTA objectives?
28 Sep 16 DiscussionJB Cronjé, tralac Researcher, discusses how CFTA objectives supported by modalities and guiding principles should inform the development of negotiating texts on trade in services ...
Flexibilities in safeguard measures: possible options for the Continental Free Trade Area
07 Sep 16 DiscussionWillemien Viljoen, tralac Researcher, discusses how the Continental FTA negotiations could build flexibility into safeguard measures
Regional integration amongst countries of uneq...