Tag: COVID-19
South Africa’s ITAC Investigations 2022 – Post Covid-19 Update
28 Jun 23 PublicationsThe Trade Law Centre (tralac) in 2014 began monitoring and reporting on an annual basis the International Trade Administration’s (ITAC) tariffs and trade remedies investigations....
tralac Daily News
06 Oct 22 NewsLocal news
President Ruto flags off Kenya tea to Ghana under AfCFTA trade initiative (Kenya Broadcasting Corporation)
President Ruto spoke at the Kenyatta International...
tralac Daily News
01 Aug 22 NewsLocal news
Trade Statistics for June 2022 | South African Revenue Service (SARS)
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) today releases trade statistics for June 2022 recording ...
tralac Daily News
15 Jul 22 NewsLocal news
Structural growth in South Africa to slow for the rest of this year (Engineering News)
While South Africa's real gross domestic product (GDP) growth expanded...
tralac Daily News
13 Jul 22 NewsLocal news
AfDB to lead Zim debt clearance roadmap (The Herald)
African Development Bank (AfDB) president Dr Akinwumi Adesina has formally accepted President Mnangagwa’s reques...
tralac Daily News
13 Jun 22 NewsLocal news
Localisation strategies must identify, remove constraints for local producers (Engineering News)
Effective localisation strategies must start by identifying the constr...
The Russia-Ukraine war has triggered the use of export restrictions on essential food supplies by some WTO members prompting food insecurity and rising food prices
13 Jun 22 PublicationsThe conflict in Ukraine has caused a global economic and humanitarian catastrophe. The global catastrophe encompasses human suffering, loss of lives, global food price increases, f...
The WTO Ministerial Conference MC12: A WTO response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
13 Jun 22 BlogWTO members are engaged in concerted efforts to agree on MC12 deliverables in all areas of negotiations. Some of the priority areas include an outcome that will deliver a realistic...
tralac Daily News
25 Apr 22 NewsLocal news
Proposed EU pest regulations to hurt domestic citrus exports, says association (Engineering News)
Newly proposed European Union (EU) regulations threaten the export of...
tralac Daily News
22 Apr 22 NewsLocal news
Removal of poultry import tariffs will destroy domestic jobs, says SAPA (Engineering News)
Requests by the Association of Meat Importers and Exporters (AMIE) to suspen...
tralac Daily News
21 Mar 22 NewsLocal news
Zim only processing two percent tobacco (The Herald)
Zimbabwe has earned US$245 million after exporting 48 000 tonnes of tobacco, as the country is only processing two...
tralac Daily News
18 Mar 22 NewsLocal news
4th SA Investment Conference 2022 (Mail & Guardian)
In an effort to boost economic growth and facilitate the creation of more employment opportunities, President C...
Coping with Covid after the AfCFTA has been launched
06 Mar 22 BlogThe COVID-19 Pandemic was a massive shock to the world, how it trades, and how it is governed. It arrived in a world of sovereign states, albeit that some of them (such as the Euro...
tralac Daily News
24 Feb 22 NewsCountry-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 ...
tralac Webinar series: Trade Policy Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
24 Feb 22 EventTrade Policy Lessons from COVID
tralac organised a two-part webinar series on Trade Policy Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
Part 1 (23 February 2022) focused on the Role of tra...
tralac Daily News
18 Feb 22 NewsCountry-related news
Disruptions in South Africa’s Rail Network Supply Chain | Crisis24 (Crisis24)
Transnet, South Africa’s state-owned logistics company, has experienced sig...
tralac Daily News
24 Jan 22 NewsCountry news
South Africa unlikely to see solid economic growth in near term, says GlobalData (Engineering News)
Against a backdrop of travel bans, higher inflationary pressures,...
Message in a bottle
24 Jan 22 BlogThe South African government has an ambiguous attitude towards the alcohol industry. During the Covid-19 pandemic, it has demonstrated a puritanical dislike for the sub-sector, ban...
tralac Daily News
21 Jan 22 NewsCountry news
South Africa’s Covid-19 Response Gets a $750 Million Boost (World Bank)
The World Bank Group Board of Executive Directors today approved South Africa’s request f...
tralac Daily News
20 Jan 22 NewsCountry news
New vaccine manufacturing facility to elevate healthcare in Africa (SAnews)
President Cyril Ramaphosa says the newly launched vaccine manufacturing facility campus a...