Tag: TFTA
Training Programme – Tripartite Free Trade Area: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 22-26 July 2013
31 Jul 13 Eventtralac presented a short course on the Tripartite Free Trade Area (T-FTA) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania during the week of 22-26 July 2013, at the request of the Ministry of Industry ...
Special economic zones and regional integration in Africa
10 Jul 13 PublicationsOne of the most prominent features of the global trading landscape in recent years has been the worldwide proliferation of bilateral and regional trade agreements. Africa is no exc...
An analysis of Africa’s export performance and export similarity for select countries within the Tripartite Free Trade Area market
03 Jul 13 PublicationsThis study discusses the issue of Africa’s export performance and, more specifically, focuses on export competition for South Africa and Kenya in the envisaged COMESA-EAC-SADC Tr...
Redirecting the Tripartite Free Trade Agreement negotiations?
26 Jun 13 PublicationsAt the first summit of the Tripartite Free Trade Agreement (T-FTA) states in October 2008 in Kampala, certain decisions were adopted on how to launch and undertake the process of e...
Training Programme – Zimbabwe’s Regional Trade Agenda, 3-7 June 2013
12 Jun 13 Eventtralac presented a training programme in Zimbabwe from 3-7 June 2013, focusing on Zimbabwe’s regional trade agenda. Funding for the programme was provided by USAID SERA – ...
tralac Annual Conference 2013
06 Mar 13 Eventtralac hosted its 2013 Annual Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, on 25 and 26 April, providing an opportunity for frank engagement among stakeholders on the trade and regi...
Training for the National Trade Negotiations Team Uganda, 18-20 June 2012
22 Jun 12 Eventtralac organised a training programme for the National Trade Negotiations Team of Uganda from 18-20 June 2012. This training sought, among other things, to improve the knowledge an...
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...
tralac Annual Conference 2012
22 Feb 12 Eventtralac celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2012. The 2012 Annual Conference, held on 19-20 April in Cape Town, South Africa, provided a special occasion to review the trade agenda o...
Trade Facilitation in the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Area
21 Sep 11 PublicationsThe COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite was created in 2006 to assist in the process of harmonising programmes and policies within and between the three Regional Economic Communities of COM...
Cape to Cairo – Making the Tripartite Free Trade Area work
08 Sep 11 PublicationsThe Heads of State and Government of the 26 member states of the Common Market for East and Southern Africa (COMESA), the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Deve...
Services negotiations under the Tripartite Agreement: Issues to consider
15 Jun 11 PublicationsThe Tripartite Free Trade Area (FTA) is envisaged not only to cover trade in goods, but also trade in services. It is, however, expected that the services negotiations at the tripa...
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...
Non-tariff barriers affecting trade in the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Agreement
01 Apr 11 PublicationsSuccessive rounds of multilateral trade negotiations have led to a decrease in the use of tariffs as barriers to trade. However, the reduction in tariffs has been substituted by th...
Tripartite FTA: State of Play on Preferential Rules of Origin
23 Mar 11 PublicationsRules of Origin (RoO) in preferential trading arrangements set out the conditions according to which the origin of a product is determined. Products are often made up of both local...
The tripartite Free Trade Agreement: A computer analysis of the impacts
23 Mar 11 PublicationsThis paper examines the implications of the so-called tripartite countries of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the East African Community (EAC) and the S...