Discussions
A summary of the Bali Package
12 Dec 2013Willemien Viljoen, tralac Researcher, discusses the outcomes of the recently-concluded Ninth WTO Ministerial Conference in Bali
The Ninth World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministeria...
read moreA GATS perspective on South Africa’s Private Security Industry Regulation Amendment Bill
04 Dec 2013JB Cronjé, tralac Researcher, discusses the review of South Africa’s Private Security Industry Regulation Act in the context of the country’s services commitments at...
read moreOn efforts towards a second pole for African continental integration
27 Nov 2013William Mwanza, tralac Researcher, discusses the decision to create a second bloc of Regional Economic Communities (RECs) in Africa
At the 18th African Union (AU) Summit held...
read moreSouth Africa’s Promotion and Protection of Investment Bill
20 Nov 2013Sean Woolfrey, tralac Researcher, discusses South Africa’s recently-published draft Promotion and Protection of Investment Bill
At the beginning of November, the South...
read moreWarsaw Climate Change Conference underway
13 Nov 2013Willemien Viljoen, tralac Researcher, discusses the United Nations Climate Change Conference currently underway in Warsaw, Poland
Early in October, a Pre-COP high level infor...
read moreAnti-dumping investigation on chicken imports from the EU
06 Nov 2013JB Cronjé, tralac Researcher, discusses the initiation of an anti-dumping investigation on chicken imports from the European Union (EU)
South Africa is no stranger to the ap...
read moreAnother BIT bites the dust
30 Oct 2013Sean Woolfrey, tralac Researcher, discusses South Africa’s decision to terminate its bilateral investment treaty (BIT) with Germany in the context of Government’s new investmen...
read moreWhere self and common interests meet: A note on the Tripartite Free Trade Area tariff liberalisation negotiations
23 Oct 2013William Mwanza, tralac Researcher, comments on the market integration pillar of the Tripartite Free Trade Area negotiations
The eighth Tripartite Trade Negotiations Forum meeting ...
read moreSouth Africa’s sugar industry: An application to increase the Dollar-based reference price
16 Oct 2013Willemien Viljoen, tralac Researcher, discusses SACU’s variable tariff formula for sugar and the recent application to increase the Dollar-based reference price (DBRP) for s...
read moreAn assessment of labour mobility in SADC, COMESA and EAC and prospects for the Tripartite FTA
10 Oct 2013JB Cronjé, tralac Researcher, discusses labour mobility within the three regional economic communities (RECs) in east and southern Africa
Labour mobility is an integral part...
read moreChallenges at Chirundu One-Stop Border Post
25 Sep 2013Sean Woolfrey, tralac researcher, and Elisha Tshuma, tralac intern, discuss the challenges faced at Africa’s first one-stop border post
Efforts to boost intra-regional trad...
read moreUnited States-sub-Saharan Africa Trade Initiative
18 Sep 2013Willemien Viljoen, tralac Researcher, discusses the launch of the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) sub-Saharan Africa Trade Initiative
This week (between 16...
read moreBorder Management in Southern Africa: Lessons with respect to Policy and Institutional Reforms
11 Sep 2013Gerhard Erasmus, tralac Associate, discusses the reluctance among African nations to address governance challenges and implement the necessary policy reforms in order to further re...
read moreCOMESA Competition Commission merger approval regime
04 Sep 2013JB Cronjé, tralac Researcher, highlights concerns regarding the merger approval procedures under the COMESA Competition Commission
The Competition Commission of th...
read moreMapping the architecture of SADC Protocols for infrastructural development under the RIDMP
28 Aug 2013William Mwanza, tralac Researcher, discusses the legal underpinnings of SADC’s regional infrastructure development initiative
Infrastructural development is a critical prerequis...
read moreAfrican countries’ trading partners – old friends, new friends and close friends
21 Aug 2013Sean Woolfrey, tralac Researcher, discusses the AGOA Forum, SADC Summit, and BRICS Business Council meeting
Over the past two weeks, the African continent has played host to three...
read moreAGOA Forum concludes in Addis Ababa, amid growing uncertainty around its long-term future
14 Aug 2013
Eckart Naumann, tralac Associate, discusses the outcomes of the 2013 AGOA Forum in the context of growing anxiety and uncertainty regarding AGOA’s future
The 2013 U...
read moreThe status of renewable energy in Africa
14 Aug 2013Willemien Viljoen, tralac Researcher, discusses the main findings of the Renewables 2013 Global Status Report in the context of recent developments in Africa
Recently the Ren...
read moreTalks on a Plurilateral Trade in Services Agreement
07 Aug 2013JB Cronjé, tralac Researcher, discusses the ongoing negotiations towards a plurilateral Trade in Services Agreement
Almost twenty years after the conclusion of the Uruguay R...
read moreOperationalising the SADC Regional Infrastructure Development Master Plan
31 Jul 2013William Mwanza, tralac Researcher, comments on the implementation of the RIDMP in the context of the Short Term Action Plan, highlighting areas where continued efforts ar...
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