Tag: Brexit - tralac trade law centre

Private Equity Africa Investor Summit: New paradigm investing

13 Jun 18 News

Keynote address by Harriett Baldwin, Minister of State for Africa, UK Government Thank you so much for that very kind introduction and for giving me this platform to speak to...

Parliamentary group calls on Commonwealth leaders to put trade for development at the heart of CHOGM 2018 summit

03 Apr 18 News

Expert committee highlights the untapped potential of trade and investment in the bloc for lifting millions of Commonwealth citizens out of poverty An Inquiry Committee of disting...

SADC EPA TRQ Utilisation Update and opportunities under SADC EPA

15 Mar 18 Discussion

Taku Fundira, tralac Associate, discusses tariff rate quotas under the SADC-EU Economic Partnership Agreement November 1, 2016, marked a new era in the European Union (EU)’s tra...

Are the Brexit options for retaining SADC-EPA Benefits becoming clearer?

08 Mar 18 Blog

Brexit will arrive in about one year from now, at the end of March 2019. There have been many statements and “clarifications” but official negotiations about how the European U...

Brexit, the US, China and the future of global trade

13 Feb 18 News

Some years ago, the distinguished economist Richard Baldwin said: “Regional trade liberalisation sweeps the globe like wildfire”. He was right. Preferential trade agreements (P...

A tralac Perspective on the bigger picture for 2018

19 Jan 18 Blog

The Trade Law Centre (tralac) monitors integration, trade and governance in Africa. The fact that developments in Southern and Eastern Africa are more frequently covered does not m...

The First Phase of Brexit has been agreed: What is it about?

15 Dec 17 Publications

On Friday 8 December 2017, high-level negotiators from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) and the European Union (EU) reached a last-minute agreement to ...

2017 in trade – green shoots in Africa?

15 Dec 17 Blog

While globally protectionist sentiment and economic nationalism continue to rattle the multilateral trading system, here on the continent, even amongst serious political upheavals,...

tralac’s Daily News Selection

08 Dec 17 News

China’s double-digit trade jump pairs global and domestic demand (Bloomberg) China’s trade engine remained in high gear with a surprise export surge accompanied by further acc...

May has got her Brexit breakthrough, now for the hard part

08 Dec 17 News

The U.K. and the European Union struck a deal to unlock divorce negotiations, opening the way for talks on what businesses are keenest to nail down – the nature of the post-...

Brexit Workshop – Namibia, 28 November 2017

06 Dec 17 Event

tralac collaborated with the Namibian Agricultural Trade Forum to present a Workshop on Brexit in Namibia on 28 November 2017. The Workshop, on the topic Issues, implications...

Post-Brexit tariff rate quotas – what is the cause for the despondency?

27 Oct 17 Discussion

A proposal to apportion existing European Union (EU) tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) between the United Kingdom (UK) and the remaining 27 countries of the EU post-Brexit has numerous exp...

Brexit: Another Speech… More Challenges

18 Oct 17 Publications

The British Prime Minister has made another important speech on her government’s Brexit plans in an address to Parliament on Monday, 9 October 2017. It was meant to explain ...

South African poultry and the SADC-EU EPA

18 Oct 17 Discussion

Although the South African poultry industry is important in the broader agro-processing sector (especially in terms of employment) it is facing various difficulties. Even before th...

South African citrus exports under the SADC-EU EPA

18 Oct 17 Discussion

Citrus fruits are one of the most important export products for the South African economy. For 2016 citrus fruit exports (1.7 million tonnes) were South Africa’s main agricultura...

tralac’s Daily News Selection

10 Oct 17 News

Featured tweet, @WTODGAZEVEDO: Informal WTO ministerial gathering in Marrakesh just finished. Encouraged by the political support and focused discussions as we approach MC11. In Pr...

UK government sets out vision for post-EU trade and customs policy

10 Oct 17 News

The British government has taken a significant step in preparing to leave the European Union (EU) by setting out arrangements for post-Brexit trade and customs policy. Trade and C...

tralac’s Daily News Selection

05 Oct 17 News

Starting today, in Accra: The WIDER Development Conference on migration and mobility (jointly organized with the African Research Universities Alliance). Downloads: poster presenta...

tralac’s Daily News Selection

28 Sep 17 News

tralac’s weekly e-Newsletter is posted. The featured commentary is by Prof Gerhard Erasmus: Is the WTO under threat? Tomorrow in Johannesburg: How to succeed in doing ...

Has the Brexit Process entered a new Phase?

26 Sep 17 Publications

The British Prime Minister has delivered two major speeches this year on how her government wants to negotiate its exit from the European Union (EU) and what the post-Brexit deal s...