Discussions

by Gerhard Erasmus, tralac Associate The South African Minister of Trade and Industry has on several occasions mentioned plans for “radical economic transformation” in South A...

William Mwanza, tralac Researcher, comments on the Canada-EU negotiations towards a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement and what it may mean for Africa Multilateral tr...

Sean Woolfrey, tralac Researcher, discusses mineral beneficiation and value addition in SADC ahead of the 34th SADC Summit in Zimbabwe The 34th Southern African Development Commun...

Willemien Viljoen, tralac Researcher, comments on the recent failure by WTO members to reach agreement on the adoption of the protocol on the Trade Facilitation Agreement In ...

Gerhard Erasmus, tralac Associate, discusses the implications of the recent failure by WTO members to “bridge the gap” on the Bali Package July 31, 2014 was the deadline set b...

Gavin van der Nest, tralac Researcher, comments on the foundations of the BRICS Development Bank At the Sixth BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) Summit recently he...

by Gerhard Erasmus, tralac Associate The initialling of the text of the SADC Economic Partnership Agreement last week is a major event. It means there is a final text, which will ...

JB Cronjé, tralac Researcher, comments on the recent overhaul of South Africa’s immigration regulations On 16 May 2014, as part of a complete overhaul of its immigration p...

William Mwanza, tralac Researcher, discusses the key findings of UNCTAD’s recently-published Economic Development in Africa Report 2014 Structural transformation is key to ...

Sean Woolfrey, tralac Researcher, comments on the recent termination of Swaziland’s eligibility for trade preferences under the AGOA Late last month, United States Presiden...

Colin McCarthy, tralac Associate, comments on the 2014 State of the Nation Address by South African President Jacob Zuma During the first half of the year the South African econom...

Gerhard Erasmus, tralac Associate, discusses the international legal framework governing South African trade remedy investigations with respect to imports from the EU South Africa...

Willemien Viljoen, tralac Researcher, discusses the recently-released Renewables 2014 Global Status Report by the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (RE...

by Eckart Naumann, tralac Associate The opening line of Public Law 106–200 of May 2000, known more commonly as the (original) AGOA legislation, reads: “To authorize a new trad...

Gavin van der Nest, tralac Researcher, discusses the key findings of the World Bank’s Doing Business 2014 regional report on SADC The World Bank ‘Doing Business 2014: Sou...

JB Cronjé, tralac Researcher, discusses the findings of the recently-published Global Information Technology Report 2014 The recently released 13th edition of the World Econ...

William Mwanza, tralac Researcher, discusses the challenges posed by the EPA negotiations to the establishment of the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) As negotiations towards f...

I would like to share with you some thoughts on African integration, following the conclusion of the 2014 tralac Annual Conference last week. There is broad agreement th...

Gerhard Erasmus, tralac Associate, comments on the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations There is a new debate among African governments about whether to conclude Econ...

Gerhard Erasmus, tralac Associate, discusses the governance implications of the recent amendments to South Africa’s private security industry regulation The South African Minist...