Discussions

by Daniel Bach, tralac Associate Unlike what has happened in Asia, where the rise of ASEAN since the 1990s correlates with bottom up processes and an emphasis on ‘lean’ i...

Are frozen whole chickens and boneless chicken cuts being dumped in the SACU market causing material injury to the domestic (SACU) industry? Willemien Viljoen, tralac Research...

JB Cronjé, tralac Researcher, discusses the WTO ruling against China’s appeal on export curbs A recent ruling by the World Trade Organization’s (WTO’s) Appellate Body again...

Sean Woolfrey, tralac Researcher, discusses the rationale for boosting intra-African trade This past weekend saw African leaders meeting in Addis Ababa for the 18th African Union ...

Taku Fundira, tralac Researcher, discusses Africa’s engagement with the emerging markets Since the beginning of the new millennium there has been a lot of interest in the influe...

Paul Kruger, tralac Researcher, discusses Special Economic Zones for South Africa On Monday Rob Davies, Minister of Trade and Industry announced plans to introduce special economi...

Willemien Viljoen, tralac Researcher, provides an overview of key trade-related developments in 2011 Various multilateral, regional and domestic trade and trade-related developmen...

Willemien Viljoen, tralac Researcher, discusses the outcomes of the Durban Climate Change Conference The 17th Conference of the Parties (COP 17) to the United Nations Framework Co...

JB Cronjé, tralac Researcher, comments on the upcoming Eighth WTO Ministerial Conference in Geneva On 15-17 December 2011 the highest decision-making body of the World Trade Orga...

2012 promises to be an interesting and challenging year on many fronts. Predictions for the global economy, and perhaps in particular for developed regions such as the Europea...

Sean Woolfrey, tralac Researcher, comments on tralac’s participation at the Durban Climate Change Conference Earlier this week tralac participated at the Durban Trade and Climat...

Taku Fundira, tralac Researcher, discusses the findings of the 2011 COMESA Investment Report Africa currently presents interesting economic opportunities. It is host to some of th...

by Willemien Viljoen, tralac Researcher* African countries are faced with a variety of environmental challenges which can hamper the current developmental path of these econo...

Willemien Viljoen, a tralac Researcher, discusses infrastructure in Africa and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Adequate and efficient infrastructure is a necessa...

Willemien Viljoen, tralac Researcher, discusses unresolved issues in the Green Climate Fund The Green Climate Fund (GCF) was created at the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP 15)...

Willemien Viljoen, tralac Researcher, provides an update on the preparations for the Durban Climate Change Conference On 6-10 August 2010 the African Group Negotiators on Climate ...

JB Cronjé, a tralac Researcher, discusses Infrastructure Services, Regulation and Competition. The Declaration Launching the Negotiations for the Establishment of the Tripartite ...

Sean Woolfrey, a tralac Researcher, discusses the question: ‘What to do about Doha?’ The latest deadlock in the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations raises serious qu...

Paul Kruger, a tralac Researcher, discusses the 2011 World Investment Report Last week the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) published its 2011 World Inv...

Willemien Viljoen, tralac Researcher, provides an update on the UN Climate Change negotiations The outcome of the meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) which took place...