Tag: Economic Partnership Agreements
Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) – State of play, future perspectives and implementation
15 Oct 13 NewsAddress by Karel De Gucht, European Trade Commissioner, to the EU-ACP Joint Ministerial Trade Committee, Brussels, 11 October 2013
Ministers,
This is now the fourth time tha...
An assessment of the Trade and Development Cooperation Agreement
13 Feb 13 PublicationsThe Trade, Development and Cooperation Agreement (TDCA) between South Africa and the European Union (EU) is an important trade agreement for South Africa, as it enables preferentia...
Do EPAs undermine regional integration in Southern Africa?
01 Mar 11 PublicationsRegional integration features prominently in the development strategies of most African countries. The current regional integration agenda for East and Southern Africa is ambitious...
Monitoring Regional Integration in Southern Africa Yearbook 2009
08 Dec 10 PublicationsDuring 2009 several important developments highlighted specific challenges for policy makers in Southern Africa. The global economic crisis continued to impact on the region in 200...
Regional Seminar on EU-SADC Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations, 13-15 September 2010
27 Sep 10 EventFrom 13 to 15 September 2010 in Cape Town, South Africa, the European Union (EU) and tralac jointly hosted an information seminar on the EU-SADC (Southern African Development Commu...
State of play in the SADC-EU EPA negotiations
01 Jun 10 PublicationsIn June 2009, four members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiating group – Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique and Swazila...
Supporting Regional Integration in East and Southern Africa – Review of Select Issues
18 May 10 PublicationsThere has been renewed interest in regional integration in Africa in the last few years. Political ambitions to progress along the linear path of regional integration from free tra...
tralac Annual Conference 2009
23 Oct 09 Eventtralac held its 2009 Annual Conference on the 3rd and 4th of September in Cape Town, South Africa. The aim of the Conference was to critically review the past year’s key tra...
Safeguards and trade remedies in the SADC and ESA Economic Partnership Agreements
30 Sep 09 Publications
This paper discusses the “Trade Defence Instruments” in the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) currently being negotiated between the European Union (EU), on the one hand...
A SADC-EU Economic Partnership Agreement – current status and benchmarking of negotiations
22 Aug 08 PublicationsAt the end of 2007 the WTO waiver with respect to the Lomé/Cotonou-based non-reciprocal trade preferences for African Caribbean and Pacific Group (ACP) countries in the EU market ...
tralac Annual Conference 2008
20 Jun 08 Eventtralac’s Annual Conference 2008 took place on 12 and 13 June in Cape Town. The Conference focused on Southern Africa’s RTA (Regional Trade Arrangement) agenda.
Background
Cou...
Southern Africa and the European Union: the TDCA and SADC EPA
02 Jun 08 PublicationsRegional integration is not a new issue in the Southern African region with the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) dating back to 1910. It was only in 2002, however, that steps ...
A general overview of proposed changes to the Rules of Origin in ACP-EU EPAs
28 May 08 PublicationsThe revision of the ACP-EC rules of origin was long overdue, with the the prevailing regime dating back to the early Lome Conventions that governed the ACP’s access to EU markets...
Monitoring Regional Integration in Southern Africa Yearbook 2007
14 Mar 08 Publications2007 may perhaps turn out to mark a watershed for regional integration in the southern Africa region. Developments both intra- and extra-regionally have raised the regional integra...
SADC Workshop on Trade in Services and Investment in the EPA Negotiations, 20-22 February 2008
05 Mar 08 EventThe European Commission (EC) and tralac organised a Southern African Development Community (SADC)/EC Workshop on Trade in Services and Investment in the Economic Partnership Agreem...
tralac EPA Review Workshop, 23 January 2008
25 Jan 08 EventCritical evaluation of the EPA negotiation process
The first phase of the EPA negotiations is now completed and Member States are preparing themselves for the next round of n...
tralac Annual Conference 2007
16 Oct 07 Eventtralac not only hosted its 5th Annual Conference but also celebrated 5 years of developing and building trade capacity in the region. Our flagship event was hosted at the BMW pavil...
SADC EPA Benchmarking Workshop, 1 October 2007
02 Oct 07 EventDespite the process of negotiating the EPAs between the ACP and EU countries appearing to have been conceived with sustainable development goals in mind, progress in the negotiatio...
Benchmarking EPA negotiations between EU and SADC
01 Oct 07 PublicationsThis Working Paper starts by summarising the status of SADC-EU EPA negotiations and sketches the legal and institutional outline underlying these negotiations. Subsequent to this, ...
Services Training Workshop, 22-23 August 2007
24 Aug 07 Eventtralac hosted a two day workshop on Trade in Services in Cape Town, South Africa from 22-23 August 2007. Patrick Low, Head: Economic Research and Statistics, from the World Tr...