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Despite the process of negotiating the EPAs between the ACP and EU countries appearing to have been conceived with sustainable development goals in mind, progress in the negotiatio...

tralac hosted a two day workshop on Trade in Services in Cape Town, South Africa from 22-23 August 2007. Patrick Low, Head: Economic Research and Statistics, from the World Tr...

The International Trade Centre (ITC), in collaboration with the Trade Law Centre (tralac), organized a “Regional Experts Meeting” for the Southern African Development Community...

tralac presented a training course on Rules of Origin for the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations, specifically for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) ...

tralac hosted a workshop on the SACU Tribunal on 1-2 February 2007 in Cape Town. The SACU Agreement of 2002 provides for a new legal regime in terms of which the Members of t...

From 8 to 20 December 2006, tralac conducted an induction course for new trade policy analysts at The Commodore Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa. The course was run in collabo...

On 25 October 2006, tralac Associate and Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Stellenbosch, Colin McCarthy, presented a paper at a workshop convened by the Inst...

tralac’s 2006 Annual Conference, held at the President Hotel in Cape Town on 5 and 6 October, focused on Economic Partnership Agreements. A special relationship has long existed...

On 4 October 2006, tralac, along with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC), jointl...

The University Professor Training Programme on the WTO and Sustainable Development for Southern Africa was held in Cape Town, South Africa from 11-14 December 2006. The workshop wa...

On 6 October 2006, tralac, the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) and the Centre for International Environmental Law (CIEL) co-hosted a wo...

tralac recently organised a short course on managing the import tariff in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU). The course was held on 11-12 September 2006 at the Stellen...

tralac facilitated a 2-day training course on Rules of Origin (RoO) on 4-5 September, and which took place in Harare, Zimbabwe. It was organised by tralac together with the COMESA ...

On 23 to 24 August 2006, the South African National Treasury, the Commonwealth Secretariat (Comsec) and the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) organized a wor...

As the euphoria of trade liberalisation is being replaced by hard and realistic analysis, a worrying feature is that the gains from comprehensive liberalisation are being reduced. ...

tralac was invited to a workshop on Intellectual Property, Free Trade Agreements, and Sustainable Development, co-organized by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)...

The 1990s was a decade of constitution-making around the world. A central interest of comparative constitutional lawyers then was the role of constitutions in facilitating democrat...

The Commonwealth Secretariat (Comsec) and Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa (tralac) organised a meeting for the African Region last year in preparation for the WTO Hong Kong Mi...

The Doha Development package: Did the Hong Kong WTO conference bring the Doha round any closer to conclusion? tralac was invited to make a presentation at a meeting convened ...

tralac held its Annual Conference on 13 and 14 October 2005 in Cape Town on the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) and their impact on African, Caribbean and Pacific countries....