Tag: COMESA - tralac trade law centre

Fresh push for states to ratify the Tripartite FTA as deadline draws near

05 Apr 19 News

The deadline set by the Tripartite Council of Ministers for member States of three regional economic blocs to sign and ratify the tripartite free trade area lapses this month....

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01 Apr 19 News

A suite of REC-related policy updates: Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa An extra-ordinary meeting of the COMESA Council of Ministers will be held on Friday, in L...

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12 Mar 19 News

COMESA’s tribute to the late Ambassador Julius Onen, the PS of Uganda’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives UNCTAD is undertaking an Investment Policy Review of Angol...

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06 Mar 19 News

AU Ministers of Trade, Industry and Mineral Resources: final declaration of STC meeting (11-12 January, Kigali) on the theme The entry into force of the agreement establishing the ...

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04 Mar 19 News

JETRO’s 2018 survey on business conditions of Japanese-affiliated firms in Africa: Chinese companies emerge as top competitors for the first time (JETRO) Regarding cooperation w...

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01 Mar 19 News

Featured tweet, infographic, @fadyhocheimy: So I sent DHL from Gambia to Senegal and this is how it traveled to get there. There is a direct 25 min flight almost daily between Gamb...

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19 Feb 19 News

Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (20-26 March) on the theme Fiscal policy, trade and the private sector in the digital era: a strategy ...

South Africa deposits Tripartite FTA Ratification instrument

13 Dec 18 News

The Republic of South Africa has deposited the instrument of Ratification of the EAC-COMESA-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA Agreement) bringing the number of c...

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26 Nov 18 News

African trade and infrastructure events starting today: PIDA Week 2018, in Victoria Falls. Nepad CEO, Ibrahim Assane Mayaki: “As regional integration arrangements deepen and...

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22 Nov 18 News

WTO updates: (i) G20 economies: WTO report shows sharp rise in trade-restrictive measures A total of 40 new trade-restrictive measures were applied by G20 economies during the re...

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21 Nov 18 News

The WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body meets today: selected updates India asks WTO to set up panel against US for imposing higher duties on steel, aluminium. China, the EU, Mexi...

COMESA, EU sign €48 million trade facilitation programme agreement

21 Nov 18 News

The European Union and COMESA have signed a €48.3 million trade facilitation programme. The COMESA Trade Facilitation Programme (CTFP) aims at deepening regional integration, imp...

Monitoring Regional Integration in Southern Africa Yearbook 2017/18

06 Nov 18 Publications

Monitoring Regional Integration in Southern Africa is celebrating its 15th anniversary. This edition includes a review of the developments since 2001, the year when the first editi...

Madagascar: Intra-Africa trade and tariff profile

21 Oct 18 Resource

This Trade Data Update provides an overview of Madagascar’s intra-African trade relationships, both within the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and with other individual Afri...

Zambia: Intra-Africa trade and tariff profile

21 Oct 18 Resource

This Trade Data Update provides an overview of Zambia’s intra-African trade relationships, both within the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and with other individual African ...

COMESA welcomes SA’s ratification of the Tripartite FTA

10 Oct 18 News

South Africa has ratified the Tripartite Free Trade Agreement, becoming the fourth country to do so after Egypt, Uganda and Kenya. This is according to a notification sent by the S...

Training Course for the Judges from the COMESA Court of Justice, 8-12 October 2018

08 Oct 18 Event

tralac presented a 5-day training course for the Judges of the COMESA Court of Justice (from the Appellate and First Instance Divisions) in Cape Town, South Africa during the week ...

COMESA: Trade experts propose sanctions on member states introducing new NTBs

25 Sep 18 News

The next summit of the COMESA Heads of State and Governments is likely to take a firmer stand on countries that introduce non-tariff barriers without notice. But this will depend o...

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20 Aug 18 News

Featured tweet, from @ICA_Africa: The ICA Africa ‘Infrastructure Financing Trends in Africa’ report for 2017 is currently in development and should be ready by November 2018. I...

COMESA: 98% of regional non-tariff barriers resolved

20 Aug 18 News

A total of 199 out of 204 non-tariff barriers (NTBs) to regional trade that have been reported among the COMESA Member States since the establishment of the Tripartite NTB Online R...