Tag: Agriculture

Domestic, country-related news Motor, agri industries urge govt to suspend fuel levy amid skyrocketing crude oil prices (Engineering News) Industry organisations the Motor Indust...

On December 30, 2021, the United States International Trade Commission (USITC or I.T.C.) received a request from Ventura Coastal LLC, an American firm, to undertake an investigatio...

Country-related news Poultry industry winning battle against unfair trade (Farmer’s Weekly) The fight against unfair competition and illegal imports is starting to reap benefit...

Country-related news Smuggling of Illegal Consignments of Clothing into South Africa Presents Ongoing Threat to the Viability of South Africa’s Clothing Industry (GlobeNewswire)...

Country-related news SA’s agricultural exports hit a new record high (Cape Business News) The need to improve logistics efficiency and curb the deterioration of infrastructure ...

Country-related news Investment in SA a boost for economic sectors (IOL) South Africa will this year continue with concerted efforts to attract new investments into the country t...

Country-related news South Africa: Trade Liberalization In Africa And Arbitration Clauses In Cross-border Agreements (Mondaq) The African Continental Free Trade Area or “AfCFTA...

The 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...

National SA companies scored deals worth millions at Intra-African Trade Fair-Rocha (The dtic) Most of the more than 80 government-supported South African companies which sh...

Should farmers be worried about the COP “Methane Pledge” to reduce methane emissions by 30% before 2030?[1] There was real concern amongst them in the UK and Ireland, especiall...

National Sugar cane growers call for sugar tax to be scrapped (Engineering News) Industry association the South African Canegrowers has called on Finance Minister Enoch Godongwan...

National SA Companies to Participate at Intra-African Trade Fair 2021 (the dtic) More than 80 South African companies, supported by government, will have an opportunity to s...

The 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,...

As 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 ...

National SA’s divided food system saw producers, consumers lose out in lockdown – study (Eyewitness News) New research shows how food producers and consumers lost out under t...

National Gas key as South Africa transitions to clean energy (Engineering News) Gas will be needed to help meet energy demand in South Africa during the necessary transition to c...

Geographical indications (GIs) are used to identify a good as originating in the territory of a specific country, or a region or locality in that country, where a given quality, re...

The 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...

National New transport initiative aims to empower almost a thousand women (Engineering News) A new initiative championed by the Commercial Transport Academy (CTA) will aim to emp...

National SA agri posts trade surplus in Q2 despite ongoing Covid challenges (Bizcommunity) The results of both the first and second quarter of 2021 agriculture export performance...