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The China-Africa trade relationship
18 Nov 2019 Trade Briefs PublicationsChina is the most important individual trade partner for African countries. As a grouping, the EU member states are the most important destination and source region for African exp...
read moreNo Brexit on 31 October 2019: What happens next?
18 Nov 2019 Trade Briefs PublicationsBrexit is not easily tamed. Despite the firm promises of Mr. Boris Johnson that the United Kingdom (UK) would leave the European Union (EU) on 31 October 2019 “do or die”, this...
read moreDoes the AfCFTA have a clear design and will it live a Life of its own?
18 Nov 2019 Trade Briefs PublicationsThe AfCFTA has been designed to comply with the typical multilateral rules applicable to an FTA covering trade in goods and service. They include Article XXIV of the General Agreem...
read moreWhat exactly does it mean to be an AfCFTA State Party?
16 Nov 2019 Trade Briefs PublicationsIt has been promised that continent-wide trade under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) will commence on 1 July 2020. This will require the completion of difficult ou...
read morePatterns of Comparative Advantage in Africa: Assessing Similarities and Differences
15 Nov 2019 Trade Briefs PublicationsThis trade brief applies several unsupervised statistical learning methodologies to determine the extent to which the nations of Africa converge (or diverge) in terms of their expo...
read moreMarket Access Patterns in Africa: Assessing Similarities and Differences
27 Oct 2019 Trade Briefs PublicationsThis trade brief applies several unsupervised statistical learning methodologies to determine the extent to which the nations of Africa converge (or diverge) in terms of their non-...
read moreAttracting Scarce Skills: How does South Africa’s skills immigration regime fare in addressing skills deficits?
23 Oct 2019 Trade Briefs PublicationsThere have been prominent statements this year suggesting that skills immigration is high on the Ramaphosa government’s agenda. However, behind the headlines, matters are less th...
read moreThe AfCFTA legal framework for the elimination of NTBs
16 Oct 2019 Trade Briefs PublicationsThe elimination of Non-Tariff Barriers (NTBs) is identified as one of the main objectives of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The AfCFTA legal instruments – the ...
read moreA No-Deal Brexit is on the Cards. What are the Implications for Trade with the UK?
30 Aug 2019 Trade Briefs PublicationsBoris Johnson became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (UK) on 24 July 2019 and changed the narrative on Brexit. He wants to renegotiate the withdrawal deal agreed by his predec...
read moreWhere does the African Continental Free Trade Area stand and what is its “Operational Phase” about?
30 Aug 2019 Trade Briefs PublicationsThe standard procedure for concluding multilateral (as opposed to bilateral) International Agreements is that the texts are negotiated, adopted, signed and ratified by the required...
read moreTrade in Services under the AfCFTA and domestic Regulation
30 Aug 2019 Trade Briefs PublicationsWhen the Protocol on Trade in Services of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) enters into force (which is expected to happen in the not too distant future), an importa...
read moreTrade facilitation challenges in southern Africa
26 Aug 2019 Trade Briefs PublicationsThe cost of trade is mainly associated with tariffs and non-tariff costs. Although there are many reasons why these costs are high, minimising trade costs is to the benefit of impo...
read moreAfrica’s trade data challenges – are commodities and areas not elsewhere specified and exports as ship stores and bunkers inexplicable inconsistencies in the data?
26 Aug 2019 Trade Briefs PublicationsMissing data and inaccuracies have meant that significant gaps in the trade data for unspecified commodities and trade with unspecified partners exist in many African countries. Wh...
read moreThe Proposed Discourse in the WTO on the MSMEs Environment: A Case of South Africa
20 Aug 2019 Trade Reports PublicationsIn an effort to unpack the discourse of the World trade Organisation (WTO) on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), this paper provides a background on Small and Medium Ente...
read moreClimate Change and Fiscal Policy – Implications and Options for African countries
31 Jul 2019 Trade Briefs PublicationsThe most severe impacts of climate change are often felt by the least developed and low-income countries. These countries are scarcely able to afford the challenges of mitigating a...
read moreGlobal Warming: A Paradigm shift is required to avert disaster
31 Jul 2019 Trade Briefs PublicationsThe latest report released by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) approved on 6 October 2018 is a stark reminder of the dire consequences and impact of global w...
read moreInitial Assessments of Africa’s New Trade Information Portals
31 Jul 2019 Trade Briefs PublicationsOver the past few years, various African countries have established trade information/intelligence portals to facilitate trade through transparency and sharing of information. This...
read moreIntroducing Data Science Techniques for Trade Analysis: With Applications in Knime
31 Jul 2019 Trade Reports Publications‘Data science’ refers to a growing body of knowledge around the acquisition, manipulation, visualisation, analysis and reporting; usually by means of analysis tools or platform...
read moreThe first Dispute under the SADC EPA has been declared
12 Jul 2019 Trade Briefs PublicationsWhen the SADC EU Economic Partnership Agreement (SADC EPA) between the European Union (EU) and the Member States of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) and Mozambique was con...
read moreThe Development of REC Community Law: The EAC Court of Justice makes an important Contribution
12 Jul 2019 Trade Briefs PublicationsWhen the internal legal order of a particular regional integration arrangement is described as being based on “Community Law”, it typically means an advanced level of integrati...
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