Tag: SACU
Training Programme – Botswana Trade Commission: Cape Town, 23-27 May 2016
01 Jun 16 EventTrudi Hartzenberg and Gerhard Erasmus presented a training programme for the Botswana Trade Commission in Cape Town on 23-27 May 2016.
Government enacted the Botswana Trade Commis...
An analysis of South African agricultural trade, 2010 to 2014 inclusive: highlighting the importance of Africa
26 May 16 PublicationsUntil mid-November 2013 it was not possible to accurately assess the profile of South Africa’s agricultural trade. It was only at that date that the South African Revenue Service...
Lesotho’s clothing exports to the United States: an historical and detailed analysis
20 May 16 PublicationsIn recent papers tralac has written extensively on Lesotho and trade related issues. Sandrey (2015) confirmed that manufacturing and in particular the textiles and clothing sector ...
The textile and clothing trade in Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland (BLNS)
29 Apr 16 PublicationsOutside of South Africa there is little traditional manufacturing capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa that is able to make an impact in global export markets. Perhaps the only sector th...
Capacity building at tralac – Geek Week, 11-15 April 2016
07 Mar 16 Eventtralac hosted a capacity building initiative, known as a Geek Week, for researchers and trade policy analysts at the tralac offices from 11-15 April 2016. The Geek Week provid...
A historical perspective on South Africa’s trading and investment profile with Africa in recent years
10 Dec 15 PublicationsThe objective of this working paper is to provide some background to the South African trade and investment profile in recent years, with a special emphasis on the trade relations ...
Lesotho – where to?
27 Nov 15 PublicationsThe objective of this paper is to provide a background to Lesotho’s economic and trade policies with a particular emphasis on future directions for the Mountain Kingdom. For this...
The SACU Tariff Board: Original Design and Implications of Subsequent Developments
11 Nov 15 Publications
With the signing of a new Southern African Customs Union (SACU) Agreement in 2002, the Member States agreed to a new design for conducting the operations of this Organization. ...
tralac Trade Governance and Remedies Workshop, 29 October 2015
28 Oct 15 EventOn 29 October 2015, tralac hosted a workshop on the contemporary legislative and governance needs of Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland (BLNS) with respect to the promot...
What future Scenarios for the Southern African Customs Union?
23 Sep 15 PublicationsThe Southern African Customs Union (SACU) is in an impasse; and has been so for some time now. The Council of Ministers, which is SACU’s “supreme decision making authority”, ...
SACU Roundtable, 17 September 2015
16 Sep 15 Eventtralac hosted a roundtable discussion on the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business on 17 September 2015. The meeting...
South Africa’s agricultural trading relationship with Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland (BLNS)
19 Aug 15 PublicationsThe objective of this paper is to analyse the Southern African Customs Union’s (SACU) agricultural trading relationship with particular focus on South Africa’s dominant trading...
Black holes in African trade data
29 Jul 15 PublicationsCollating and analysing African trade data is an exercise fraught with difficulties. In many instances this data is not available from its primary source, and this leads to the use...
The Implications of the Tripartite FTA for SACU
01 Jul 15 PublicationsHow will the recently signed Tripartite FTA change the institutional landscape for trade and regional integration in Southern and Eastern Africa? The optimism levels for the (Cape ...
Intra-SACU trade relationships and related issues
20 May 15 PublicationsMuch of the focus of South Africa’s trading relationship with BLNS countries is on the SACU revenue-sharing formula, a formula which is based entirely upon one side and one side ...
Monitoring Regional Integration in Southern Africa Yearbook 2013/2014
12 Mar 15 PublicationsRegional and especially economic integration holds potential and strong benefits for Africa. But this is true only if Africa could succeed in identifying a successful formula to co...
Trade Agreements as Part of the Law of the Land: The Example of SACU and Namibia
28 Jan 15 PublicationsThe Constitution of the Republic of Namibia contains in Article 144 a provision which purports to make international agreements part of the national law. It reads:
Unless otherwis...
EPA conclusion – no time for complacency: IPPR
23 Sep 14 NewsThe Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has warned in its latest Economy Watch Namibia publication, that although relief has been brought to affected industries, there is n...
SACU after ten years: taking stock and looking ahead
17 Sep 14 PublicationsThe new Southern African Customs Union (SACU) Agreement entered into force on 15 July 2014. Where does the Organization stand ten years later? Have the original expectations come t...
SACU: Taking stock and considering future developments – September 2014
11 Sep 14 EventThe Trade Law Centre (tralac) in collaboration with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation hosted a workshop in Windhoek, Namibia on 5 September 2014, to discuss the Southern African Custo...