Tag: World Trade Organisation
tralac Daily News
13 Dec 21 NewsNational
Address by Fikile Majola, Deputy Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition delivered on the occasion of the Virtual Colloquium: Opportunities in mobile applications dev...
tralac Daily News
08 Dec 21 NewsNational
Economist: COVID effects will be determining factor in SA’s economic growth (Eyewitness News)
Economists say the effects of the Omicron variant and the ability of busi...
tralac Daily News
03 Dec 21 NewsNational
South Africa is failing to ride the digital revolution wave. What it needs to do (The Conversation Africa)
Workplaces are adopting new forms of advanced automation at a ...
tralac Daily News
01 Dec 21 NewsNational
SA’s trade surplus narrows to R19.78bn in October (Moneyweb)
South Africa’s trade surplus narrowed to R19.78 billion ($1.23 billion) in October from a revised surplu...
tralac Daily News
29 Nov 21 NewsNational
Cyril Ramaphosa | Let’s focus on the continent for renewed trade and investment opportunities (News24)
Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic last year, which coi...
tralac Daily News
26 Nov 21 NewsNational
CSIR’s initial circular economy study shows potential to create economy-wide value (Engineering News)
The initial findings from the Council for Scientific and Industri...
Ambiguities about the WTO Farm Subsidies for Food Security Purposes
26 Nov 21 BlogThe WTO negotiations on Public Stockholding (PSH) for food security purposes is one of the highly contested topics in the agriculture negotiations. PSH programmes are instruments t...
tralac Daily News
19 Nov 21 NewsNational
Additive manufacturing in South Africa boosted by local technology developments (Engineering News)
Although the Covid-19 pandemic has had a very real impact on the secto...
tralac Daily News
18 Nov 21 NewsNational
South Africa urges careful planning for end of coal (Engineering News)
South Africa’s energy department has said it will start preparing for the end of coal-for-power ...
tralac Daily News
17 Nov 21 NewsNational
Tanzania’s exports to Kenya double to Sh20 billion in six months (Business Daily)
Kenya’s imports from Tanzania doubled to Sh20.5 billion in the first half of the ye...
tralac Daily News
16 Nov 21 NewsNational
Maersk - Grindrod JV to offer end-to-end logistics in South Africa (Logistics Update Africa)
A. P. Moller - Maersk announced its intention to form a joint venture with G...
Prospects and Developments in the WTO talks on Export Restrictions
16 Nov 21 BlogThe outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the limitations in the WTO rules on export restrictions. Consequently, the food importing countries such as Japan, Singapore, ...
tralac Daily News
15 Nov 21 NewsNational
Traxtion prepares to make use of ‘rare’ private sector rail opportunity (Engineering News)
Private rail freight operator Traxtion sees the national government’s st...
Are WTO Members Misinterpreting or Abandoning the Mandate of S&DT in the WTO?
15 Nov 21 PublicationsIt is a long-held view of developing countries in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that some restrict-ions imposed by WTO trade rules and trade related agreements tend to hinder ...
tralac Daily News
12 Nov 21 NewsDomestic trade news
Economists satisfied with MTBPS but still concerned over SA’s growth, debt (Eyewitness News)
While economists have welcomed the revenue windfall which has b...
tralac Daily News
04 Nov 21 NewsNational
Trade Statistics for September 2021 (South African Revenue Service)
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) today releases trade statistics for September 2021 reco...
tralac Webinar: Preparing for MC12 – Agriculture, Special and Differential Treatment, and Fisheries
02 Nov 21 EventThe Trade Law Centre (tralac) organised a webinar on 8 November 2021 focusing on specific developments related to negotiations at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on Agriculture,...
Is a positive outcome on trade-distorting subsidies possible at the Twelfth Ministerial Conference (MC12)?
01 Nov 21 BlogAs the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is gearing up for the 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) in November/December 2021, an outcome in the agriculture negotiations is high on the ...
tralac Daily News
26 Oct 21 NewsNational
Opinion: Breaking the stranglehold on growth and recovery (Engineering News)
In its ’South African Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan’, the government speaks ...
WTO fisheries negotiations – A few but tough issues to resolve ahead of November 2021 Ministerial Conference (MC12)
28 Sep 21 BlogThe World Trade Organisation (WTO) held a ministerial meeting on 15 July 2021 to discuss the progress of the fisheries subsidies negotiations. The discussions emphasised that the c...