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What is the Continental FTA Mandate?
03 Sep 2015 Trade Briefs PublicationsThe negotiations to establish the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) will start by the middle of 2016. The indicative date for completing the first phase is the end of 2017. These ...
read morePrivate Sector Interests with regard to the Implementation of the SADC Protocol on Trade
03 Sep 2015 Trade Briefs PublicationsThis Trade Brief argues that the private sector has a vital stake in the effective and lawful implementation of regional trade agreements such as the SADC Protocol on Trade. It set...
read moreWhere are the Singapore Issues?
03 Sep 2015 Trade Reports PublicationsThe World Trade Organisation (WTO) Members decided at the 1996 Singapore Ministerial Conference to set up three new working groups on trade and investment, competition policy, and ...
read moreThe Australian-Chinese Free Trade Agreement: Implications for South Africa
19 Aug 2015 Trade Reports PublicationsThis paper examines the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Australia and China (ChAFTA) that was signed on 17 July 2015. The examination provides an emphasis on the implications fo...
read moreSouth Africa’s agricultural trading relationship with Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland (BLNS)
19 Aug 2015 Trade Reports PublicationsThe objective of this paper is to analyse the Southern African Customs Union’s (SACU) agricultural trading relationship with particular focus on South Africa’s dominant trading...
read moreIntra-REC trade and overlapping membership: review of COMESA, EAC and SADC
12 Aug 2015 Trade Reports PublicationsThis paper analyses trade between the three Regional Economic Communities (RECs) of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the African Economic Community (EAC)...
read moreThe Tripartite Free Trade Agreement: Results of Phase One of the Negotiations
29 Jul 2015 Trade Reports PublicationsAfrican economic integration is a longstanding ideal; regularly confirmed in declarations adopted at meetings of African Governments. The Abuja Treaty, for example, records many de...
read moreBlack holes in African trade data
29 Jul 2015 Trade Reports PublicationsCollating and analysing African trade data is an exercise fraught with difficulties. In many instances this data is not available from its primary source, and this leads to the use...
read moreChanges in Foreign Investment in South Africa: a ‘Friends’ perspective
22 Jul 2015 Trade Reports PublicationsThis paper provides an update on South Africa’s foreign investment position through to and including the December 2012 year with respect to the old, new and good friends of the E...
read moreIntra-African trade – an analysis
15 Jul 2015 Trade Reports PublicationsThis paper clearly reinforces the data warning outlining the dangers inherent in trying to analyse intra-African trade data. The use of mirror data, late and non-reporting and ‘v...
read moreThe Implications of the Tripartite FTA for SACU
01 Jul 2015 Trade Briefs PublicationsHow will the recently signed Tripartite FTA change the institutional landscape for trade and regional integration in Southern and Eastern Africa? The optimism levels for the (Cape ...
read moreThe Polytol judgment of the COMESA Court of Justice: Implications for rules-based regional integration
01 Jul 2015 Trade Briefs PublicationsThe judgment by the First Instance Division of the COMESA Court of Justice in Polytol Paints & Adhesives Manufacturers Co. Ltd (Applicant) versus The Republic of Mauritius...
read moreThe new Principles for Negotiating the Continental FTA
01 Jul 2015 Trade Briefs PublicationsThe African Union Assembly launched the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) negotiations during the 25th Extraordinary Summit of Head of States and Governments on 15 June in Johanne...
read moreImplications of the Tripartite FTA for SADC and its Member States
01 Jul 2015 Trade Briefs PublicationsThe Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) initiative was originally launched to establish a single FTA among the Member States of COMESA, EAC and SADC. This would have brought the bene...
read moreIntra-SACU trade relationships and related issues
20 May 2015 Trade Reports PublicationsMuch of the focus of South Africa’s trading relationship with BLNS countries is on the SACU revenue-sharing formula, a formula which is based entirely upon one side and one side ...
read moreShaping a regional industrial development strategy in Southern Africa
29 Apr 2015 Trade Briefs PublicationsThe Southern African Development Community (SADC) is convening an Extra-Ordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government on 29 April 2015 to agree on a regional industrial developm...
read moreThe Continental Free Trade Area – A GTAP assessment
17 Apr 2015 Books PublicationsThe Trade Law Centre (tralac) has recently capitalised upon the pre-release Version 9.2 of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) database and the recent excellent data sets from...
read moreThe road transport sector in the context of the SADC Protocol on Transport, Communications and Meteorology
08 Apr 2015 Trade Reports PublicationsThe SADC Protocol on Transport, Communications and Meteorology (TCM) of 1996 aims to integrate the transport sector in the region. It places strong emphasis on the commer...
read moreSuitable Mechanisms for Negotiating Trade in Services and Movement of Business Persons in the Continental Free Trade Area
01 Apr 2015 Trade Reports PublicationsThe purpose of trade agreements is to promote international trade. Preferential trade agreements on services or Economic Integration Agreements (EIAs) as they are defined in Articl...
read moreMutual Recognition of Professional Qualifications: The East African Community
01 Apr 2015 Trade Briefs PublicationsFor advanced regional economic integration arrangements, beyond trade in goods, the free movement of labour, is an essential part of the agenda. The free movement of labour creates...
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