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The objective of this paper is to firstly set the background for a discussion and analysis of Kenya and its merchandise trading background before presenting a more detailed analysi...

This Trade Brief reviews actions taken by Parties to the Conference of Parties 21 (COP21) or 2015 Paris Climate Conference to be held in Paris from 30 November to 11 December, 2015...

This trade brief looks at the export performance of Kenya’s trade with the United States of America (US) and, more specifically, it concentrates on the preferential trade accorde...

This trade brief looks at the export performance of Lesotho’s trade with the United States of America (US) and more specifically it concentrates on the preferential trade accorde...

The objective of this paper* is to examine the West and Central African (WCA) trade profile, with some reference to the trading relationship with China and the agricultural trade p...

The objective of this paper is to provide a background to Lesotho’s economic and trade policies with a particular emphasis on future directions for the Mountain Kingdom. For this...

This paper uses the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) computer database and takes the full suite of African agricultural sectors and African countries/regions in order to assess...

Regional Economic Communities (RECs) are the building blocks and the main engines behind the arrangements designed to promote regional integration and cross-border commerce in Afri...

With the signing of a new Southern African Customs Union (SACU) Agreement in 2002, the Member States agreed to a new design for conducting the operations of this Organization. ...

The objective for this Trade Brief is to analyse the impacts of reforms in the EU sugar sector upon this African production and trade using the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP)...

The significant increase in imported consumer goods into SADC countries over the last decade has caused several SADC Governments to implement or to consider implementing Consignmen...

On 5 October 2015, Zambia notified the WTO’s Committee on Safeguards that it initiated, on 10 July 2015, a safeguard investigation on “Flat-Rolled Products of Iron, Non-Alloy S...

In recent times tralac has published extensively on African trade, with an emphasis on southern and eastern Africa as the Tripartite FTA developed. There has not been a commensurat...

International agreements on the promotion and protection of foreign investment do not guarantee investments; nor the right kind. They do, however, play an important role as part of...

The Trade Law Centre (tralac) is pleased to publish this book on safeguard measures in multilateral and regional trade agreements. The study, by Elenor Lissel, was completed and su...

African countries’ trading relationships have been changing in recent years. Trade with their traditional trading partners, the European Union and the United States (their ‘old...

2015 is an important year where a new development agenda is being shaped to move beyond the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Substantial progress has been made in achieving the...

The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) is in an impasse; and has been so for some time now. The Council of Ministers, which is SACU’s “supreme decision making authority”, ...

This paper examines services made possible by new information and communication technologies (ICTs) that are capable of being domestically and internationally traded. The emphasis ...

The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), a piece of United States legislation, was signed into law by the then President of the United States (US) Bill Clinton on 18 May 2000...