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WTO Regional Intensive Course on Trade Negotiations Skills, 11-15 May 2009
14 May 2009 WorkshopThe World Trade Organisation, in collaboration with tralac and the Universities of Pretoria and the Western Cape, presented a 5-day training course on Trade Negotiations for Englis...
read moreSeminar: Use and Application of Geographical Indications by ACP member states as a trade tool – Montpellier, 24-27 March 2009
05 May 2009 Contributions to dialogueBackground
International agricultural trade is characterized by increased competition between emerging countries in lucrative markets in developed countries. The intensification o...
read more3rd Annual Garnet Conference: Mapping Integration and Regionalism in a Global World, September 2008
23 Apr 2009 Contributions to dialoguetralac participated in the 3rd Annual GARNET Conference hosted by the University of Bordeaux from 17-19 September 2008, under the theme Mapping Integration and Regionalism in a Glo...
read moreWorkshop on Subsidies: WTO Law, Case Law and Recent Trends, 22-23 January 2009
23 Apr 2009 Workshoptralac hosted a two-day workshop on Subsidies on 22-23 January 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa.
For some countries subsidies have been and continue to be an important part of...
read moreCapacity building at tralac – Geek Week, 30 March-3 April 2009
08 Apr 2009 Geek WeekDuring the week March 30 to April 3, 2009, tralac hosted a team of analysts, including three from the National Department of Agriculture (DoA), one from the National Agricultu...
read moretralac Trade in Services Workshop – Rwanda, 9-12 December 2008
19 Dec 2008 Workshoptralac presented a workshop in Gisenyi, Rwanda from 9 to 12 December 2008. The first part of the workshop gave participants an introduction to the role of law and institutions...
read moreThe Southern African Regional Dialogue on Novel Foods Workshop, 27-28 October 2008
07 Nov 2008 Contributions to dialogueTaku Fundira, Researcher at tralac, attended the Southern African Regional Dialogue on Novel Foods Workshop hosted by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD...
read moretralac Annual Conference 2008
20 Jun 2008 Annual Conferencetralac’s Annual Conference 2008 took place on 12 and 13 June in Cape Town. The Conference focused on Southern Africa’s RTA (Regional Trade Arrangement) agenda.
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read moreReport on WTO Regional Workshop on Agriculture for English-Speaking African Countries, Windhoek, 7-8 November 2007
21 May 2008 WorkshopAgricultural trade remains an important part of overall economic activity and continues to play a major role in domestic agricultural production and employment. Hence, it’s no su...
read moreUNCTAD Meeting: RTAs and the Multilateral Trading System, 15-16 March 2007
21 May 2008 Contributions to dialogueTrudi Hartzenberg, tralac’s Executive Director, attended a meeting in Geneva on RTAs and the Multilateral Trading System. This meeting reviewed experiences from different re...
read moreSADC Workshop on Trade in Services and Investment in the EPA Negotiations, 20-22 February 2008
05 Mar 2008 WorkshopThe European Commission (EC) and tralac organised a Southern African Development Community (SADC)/EC Workshop on Trade in Services and Investment in the Economic Partnership Agreem...
read moreTrade Policy Tools Training – February/March 2008
04 Mar 2008 Training ProgrammeTrade liberalization has gained increasing attention both at the bilateral and multilateral level in the past two decades. We have witnessed the formation of the World Trade Organi...
read moretralac EPA Review Workshop, 23 January 2008
25 Jan 2008 WorkshopCritical evaluation of the EPA negotiation process
The first phase of the EPA negotiations is now completed and Member States are preparing themselves for the next round of n...
read moretralac Annual Conference 2007
16 Oct 2007 Annual Conferencetralac not only hosted its 5th Annual Conference but also celebrated 5 years of developing and building trade capacity in the region. Our flagship event was hosted at the BMW pavil...
read moreReport-back on Muenster Conference, Germany, 11-12 October 2007
12 Oct 2007 Contributions to dialogueOn 11-12 October, the Center for Trade Law in Münster, Germany, organised and hosted its 12th Annual Trade Law Conference with the theme ‘Bilateral and regional trade agreements...
read moreSADC EPA Benchmarking Workshop, 1 October 2007
02 Oct 2007 WorkshopDespite 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...
read moreServices Training Workshop, 22-23 August 2007
24 Aug 2007 Trade Reports Event Workshoptralac 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...
read moreFostering Trade through Private-Public Dialogue: Business Implications of EPA Negotiations for SADC
13 Jun 2007 WorkshopThe International Trade Centre (ITC), in collaboration with the Trade Law Centre (tralac), organized a “Regional Experts Meeting” for the Southern African Development Community...
read moreTraining Course: Rules of Origin for EPAs, 26-27 February 2007
28 Feb 2007 Training Programmetralac presented a training course on Rules of Origin for the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations, specifically for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) ...
read moreWorkshop on the SACU Tribunal, 1-2 February 2007
02 Feb 2007 Workshoptralac 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...
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