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Three remedies are available to a domestic industry injured by international trade, two of which deal with unfair trade. The first, and most commonly used, instrument is anti-dumpi...

In late 2006 South Africa unilaterally imposed quotas on the importation of selected clothing lines from China. Implementation was delayed until 1 January 2007. The key motivation ...

In discussing the trade policy regime for South African agriculture it is useful to place these policies into a framework. That framework is to use a ‘four pillars’ approach, a...

A definitive anti-dumping duty is normally imposed retroactively to the date provisional payments (preliminary duties), if any, were imposed. In practice, in South Africa and in ot...

This book presents the output of a tralac project focusing on the trade agenda of South Africa and the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) of which South Africa is a member. The ...

Global value chain (GVC) analysis has emerged in the last decade and a half as a novel tool for understanding the dynamics of economic globalization and international trade. It pos...

South Africa has gone through a true ‘revolution’ in wine quality in the last 10-15 years. In the 1980s, over 60 cooperative wineries supplied a large majority of wine to a sma...

This 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, ...

In late 2006 South Africa unilaterally imposed quotas on the importation of selected clothing lines from China. These quotas were to come into force from the last quarter of 2006, ...

The International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC) was established in terms of the International Trade Administration Act, 71 of 2002 (ITA Act), and became operational on 1 J...

Nearly 13 years after the establishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and three years after promulgating safeguard regulations (SGR), South Africa finally initiated its fir...

A feature of South African imports in recent years has been the increasing penetration of the market by China and the dominance of this market in sectors where China actively compe...

While not generating the media attention that some of the more prominent emerging markets of China, India and Brazil and, in spite of the prominence of the EU Trade, Development an...

Supports to South African agriculture were stripped from the sector from 1994/95 to the end of the 1990s, and these domestic reforms were accompanied by the liberalisation of trade...

Regional Integration in general is considered as an important theoretical paradigm for and successful practical instrument of economic growth and development. Particularly in South...

Following a comprehensive examination of the most recent merchandise trade flows between the relevant countries, this paper uses a computer model to look at the possible economic r...

The stalling of the talks in the Doha Round at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva are leading to questions about the value of such a Round for South Africa, and against t...

The trading relationship between the Southern African region and the EU is at a crossroads, where there are two major directions possible for the region plus numerous side roads th...

South Africa is one of the oldest and most prolific users of the anti-dumping instrument. The International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC), which is responsible for conduct...

A feature of the World Trade Organization (WTO) during its first ten years has been the impact of the so-called Singapore issues of investment, competition, government procurement ...