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Empowerment policies may give rise to discrimination when local suppliers are treated more favourably than foreign ones, and can even limit market access opportunities for foreign ...

The Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) is a non-reciprocal trade programme that has been adopted by a number of developed countries to provide trade preferences to developing ...

The COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite was created in 2006 to assist in the process of harmonising programmes and policies within and between the three Regional Economic Communities of COM...

The Heads of State and Government of the 26 member states of the Common Market for East and Southern Africa (COMESA), the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Deve...

tralac has worked with Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) on Trade in Services matters in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU). Although the 2002 SACU Agreement doe...

The Monitoring Regional Integration Yearbook 2010 marks the tenth edition of this publication. This monitoring exercise, ten years on, is no less relevant than it was at the projec...

Transparent laws and regulations can play an important part in the investment decisions of foreign investors. For traders and investors transparency increases predictability, legal...

The Tripartite Free Trade Area (FTA) is envisaged not only to cover trade in goods, but also trade in services. It is, however, expected that the services negotiations at the tripa...

In recent years countries have increasingly focused on enhancing market access through regional integration in light of the stalled decade-long WTO Doha Round of trade of negotiati...

Over the past four decades Least Developed Countries (LDCs) have received preferential access to the markets of most of the major developed countries under various Generalised Syst...

South Africa recently received an invitation to join the party of the so-called BRIC nations of Brazil, Russia, India and China. On the face of it this is indeed an honor, and it s...

Dumping is viewed as price discrimination between the domestic and export markets and takes place where the export price of a product is lower than the normal value of such product...

All the member states of the East African Community (EAC) are also members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and are obliged to adhere to its rules on regional integration. The...

The issue of sensitive products for exemption from tariff liberalisation in the different countries/regional groupings may become an area of contention in the tripartite FTA negoti...

Successive rounds of multilateral trade negotiations have led to a decrease in the use of tariffs as barriers to trade. However, the reduction in tariffs has been substituted by th...

This paper examines the implications of the so-called tripartite countries of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the East African Community (EAC) and the S...

Rules of Origin (RoO) in preferential trading arrangements set out the conditions according to which the origin of a product is determined. Products are often made up of both local...

Sugar and sugar policies are at the heart of agriculture in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) regions, and therefore t...

Regional integration features prominently in the development strategies of most African countries. The current regional integration agenda for East and Southern Africa is ambitious...

tralac has been collaborating with the National Agricultural Marketing Council (NAMC) in South Africa during the past year on a project which focuses on the proposed Tripartite Fre...