Tag: AfCFTA - tralac trade law centre

The AfCFTA legal framework for the elimination of NTBs

16 Oct 19 Publications

The elimination of Non-Tariff Barriers (NTBs) is identified as one of the main objectives of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The AfCFTA legal instruments – the ...

How Similar are Africa’s Exporters? Implications for the AfCFTA

16 Oct 19 Blog

Africa is a continent of great diversity, perhaps more so than any other of the continents. It is a continent richly endowed with resources and these endowments have long formed th...

How Similar are Africa’s Trade Regimes? Implications for the AfCFTA

16 Oct 19 Blog

The regional grouping of Africa – both its continental and island states – is a large and diversified bloc of countries. Within this region are multiple regional economic commu...

tralac's Daily News Selection

27 Sep 19 News

Reporting African trade and industrialization trends, dynamics: media workshops in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Addis Ababa (i) Next week in Johannesburg: ECA's AfCFTA Med...

tralac's Daily News Selection

25 Sep 19 News

Tributes continue to pour in following the death of Nigeria's chief trade negotiator and one of the AfCFTA's architects, Ambassador Chiedu Osakwe. A selection: (i) Dav...

tralac's Daily News Selection

19 Sep 19 News

PwC's The Africa Business Agenda 2019: Kenya is top destination for companies seeking expansion in Africa The study by global audit firm PwC, conducted among chief executives arou...

tralac’s Daily News Selection

17 Sep 19 News

Underway, in Moscow: VI BRICS International Competition Conference Diarise: The JSE SA Trade Connect (22-23 October, Johannesburg) AfCFTA updates from Cape Town, Nairobi, Kinsha...

tralac’s Daily News Selection

16 Sep 19 News

AfCFTA sensitisation workshops: Malawi, Kenya Malawi to host AfCFTA sensitization workshops. The Ministry of Trade and Tourism, in partnership with the ECA and the AUC, is org...

Reporting on the AfCFTA: a training course for journalists – Cape Town, 3-4 October 2019

16 Sep 19 Event

The Trade Law Centre (tralac) builds capacity for Africa to trade better. To this end, tralac offers training programmes, does analysis of trade and integration developments and su...

The Institutions of the African Continental Free Trade Area

13 Sep 19 Blog

Free Trade Areas (FTAs) need institutions to oversee, promote and monitor the implementation of obligations by the State Parties. The African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCF...

The Institutional Implications of Article 19 of the AfCFTA – where do the Regional Economic Communities fit in?

13 Sep 19 Blog

Article 19(2) of the AfCFTA Agreement provides that “State Parties that are members of other regional economic communities, regional trading arrangements and custom unions, which...

AU AfCFTA Trade in Services Signalling Conference – Cape Town, 2-3 September 2019

12 Sep 19 Event

tralac participated in the African Union’s African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Trade in Services Signalling Conference, 2-3 September 2019 The Conference, supported by ...

tralac’s Daily News Selection

10 Sep 19 News

Profiled EAC trade and regional integration policy events starting today: EAC experts meeting on the AfCFTA Extraordinary meeting of the Sectoral Council on Trade, Investment, Fi...

tralac’s Daily News Selection

06 Sep 19 News

Domestic resource mobilization: fighting against corruption and illicit financial flows (African Union) IFFs are widespread and secretive by nature. No one quite knows how to quan...

tralac’s Daily News Selection

05 Sep 19 News

Diarise African trade and regional integration events: 25th Session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Senior Officials and Experts of Southern Africa: Strategies and poli...

tralac’s Daily News Selection

04 Sep 19 News

Launched today in Accra: The 2019 Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor The 2019 Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor is being published at a critical moment for both international trade r...

Cape Verde: Intra-Africa trade and tariff profile

30 Aug 19 Resource

Intra-Africa trade profile for 2018 Cape Verde mainly trades with countries outside of the African continent. In 2018, intra-Africa exports were only US$120 000 accounting for 0.2...

Where does the African Continental Free Trade Area stand and what is its “Operational Phase” about?

30 Aug 19 Publications

The standard procedure for concluding multilateral (as opposed to bilateral) International Agreements is that the texts are negotiated, adopted, signed and ratified by the required...

Nigeria: Intra-Africa trade and tariff profile

30 Aug 19 Resource

Intra-Africa trade profile for 2018 In 2018, Nigeria exported and imported goods to and from the rest of Africa to the value of US$7 billion and US$1.3 billion, respectively. Intr...

Trade in Services under the AfCFTA and domestic Regulation

30 Aug 19 Publications

When the Protocol on Trade in Services of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) enters into force (which is expected to happen in the not too distant future), an importa...