Tag: Trade regulation
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...
Trade capacity building: from Stockholm to Cape Town, March 2012
28 Mar 12 EventThe Swedish National Board of Trade has organized two one-year capacity building programmes during 2011-2012, in the areas of Rules of Origin and Trade Facilitation. The programmes...
What has happened to the protection of rights in SADC?
18 Jan 12 PublicationsFor about the last year and a half a vital aspect of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) legal regime, the ability to enforce the rights and obligations in the legal ...
Reforming the Rules of Origin for Least Developed Countries
11 May 11 PublicationsOver the past four decades Least Developed Countries (LDCs) have received preferential access to the markets of most of the major developed countries under various Generalised Syst...
Determining the Weighted Average Margin of Dumping
10 May 11 PublicationsDumping is viewed as price discrimination between the domestic and export markets and takes place where the export price of a product is lower than the normal value of such product...
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 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...
Workshop on Protection of Geographical Indications (GIs) in the African Member States of the ACP Group, 10-11 May 2010
18 May 10 EventOn 10 and 11 May 2010, tralac attended a Regional Seminar on the Protection of Geographical Indications (GIs) in the African Member States of the African, Caribbean and P...
Supporting Regional Integration in East and Southern Africa – Review of Select Issues
18 May 10 PublicationsThere has been renewed interest in regional integration in Africa in the last few years. Political ambitions to progress along the linear path of regional integration from free tra...
International Training Programme on Rules of Origin – Regional phase, March 2010
29 Mar 10 EventThe regional phase of the International Training Programme on Rules of Origin took place in Cape Town, South Africa, from 22-26 March 2010. It is a one-week-follow up seminar organ...
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 ...
Monitoring Regional Integration in Southern Africa Yearbook 2008
25 Aug 09 Publications2008 has been an eventful year for the Southern Africa region. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) launched its Free Trade Area in August. In October at a Tripartite ...
An assessment of the trade measures proposed as part of the Department of Trade and Industry’s Draft Rescue Package for the clothing and textile industry
17 Jun 09 PublicationsOne of the South African government’s latest responses in its ongoing and thus far unsuccessful effort to assist the country’s ailing clothing and textile manufacturing industr...
Seminar: Use and Application of Geographical Indications by ACP member states as a trade tool – Montpellier, 24-27 March 2009
05 May 09 EventBackground
International agricultural trade is characterized by increased competition between emerging countries in lucrative markets in developed countries. The intensification o...
Workshop on Subsidies: WTO Law, Case Law and Recent Trends, 22-23 January 2009
23 Apr 09 Eventtralac hosted a two-day workshop on Subsidies on 22-23 January 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa.
For some countries subsidies have been and continue to be an important part of...
A general overview of proposed changes to the Rules of Origin in ACP-EU EPAs
28 May 08 PublicationsThe revision of the ACP-EC rules of origin was long overdue, with the the prevailing regime dating back to the early Lome Conventions that governed the ACP’s access to EU markets...
Monitoring Regional Integration in Southern Africa Yearbook 2007
14 Mar 08 Publications2007 may perhaps turn out to mark a watershed for regional integration in the southern Africa region. Developments both intra- and extra-regionally have raised the regional integra...
Trade Policy Tools Training – February/March 2008
04 Mar 08 EventTrade liberalization has gained increasing attention both at the bilateral and multilateral level in the past two decades. We have witnessed the formation of the World Trade Organi...
Training Course: Rules of Origin for EPAs, 26-27 February 2007
28 Feb 07 Eventtralac presented a training course on Rules of Origin for the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations, specifically for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) ...
SACU Tariff Management Course, 11-12 September 2006
13 Sep 06 Eventtralac recently organised a short course on managing the import tariff in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU). The course was held on 11-12 September 2006 at the Stellen...