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South Africa, Brazil and Argentina: the agricultural trading relationships
20 May 2009 Trade Reports PublicationsBrazil has well and truly entered the world trading stage as a key player in agricultural negotiations. This is through a combination of its own liberal trading regime, its emergen...
read moreProposed amendments to the countervailing regulations: moving forward or a missed opportunity?
13 Mar 2009 Trade Reports PublicationsA subsidy is defined as any assistance by or on behalf of government which bestows a benefit on the recipient thereof, whether in the form of the payment of a subsidy or the exempt...
read moreSACU, China and India: the implication of FTAs for Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland (BLNS)
20 Jan 2009 Trade Reports PublicationsIn assessing the future trade policy options for SACU, China and India’s dramatically increasing role as trading giants on the world scene has to be taken into account in these c...
read moreSouth African quotas on Chinese clothing and textiles: 18 month economic review
14 Nov 2008 Trade Reports PublicationsIn late 2006 South Africa imposed quotas on the importation of selected clothing lines from China. In the past 18 months tralac has been monitoring, on a periodic basis, the change...
read moreDraft amendments to the WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement – any reason to get excited?
03 Oct 2008 Trade Reports PublicationsOn 30 November 2007 the World Trade Organization (WTO) published draft amendments to the Agreement on Implementation of Article VI of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 199...
read moreChina and New Zealand: an assessment of the recent FTA agreement
25 Aug 2008 Trade Reports PublicationsSouth Africa, having undergone dramatic reforms of its economy since the 1990s, is cautiously seeking to examine trade policy changes. But the reforming zeal has long gone. Meanwhi...
read moreA SADC-EU Economic Partnership Agreement – current status and benchmarking of negotiations
22 Aug 2008 Trade Reports PublicationsAt the end of 2007 the WTO waiver with respect to the Lomé/Cotonou-based non-reciprocal trade preferences for African Caribbean and Pacific Group (ACP) countries in the EU market ...
read moreNon-tariff measures inhibiting South African exports to China and India
20 Aug 2008 Trade Reports PublicationsAs international tariffs are being reduced, increased attention is being given to the role of non-tariff measures (NTMs). In many cases these NTMs have been there all the time, but...
read moreSouth Africa and India: The non-agricultural trade analysis
12 Jun 2008 Trade Reports PublicationsIn an earlier paper, Sandrey and Fundira examined agricultural trade between South Africa and India. The objective of this paper is to extend that analysis to examine non-agricultu...
read moreSouth Africa and India: The agricultural and fisheries trading relationship
11 Jun 2008 Trade Reports PublicationsSACU has recently begun serious negotiations with India with a view towards intensifying the trading relation between the two parties. India has become a major trading partner for ...
read moreAfrican Member States and the Negotiations on Dispute Settlement Reform in the WTO
02 Jun 2008 Trade Reports PublicationsThis paper provides an overview of the WTO’s Dispute Settlement system and gives pointers on the areas African negotiators should focus on during negotiations for reform of the s...
read moreSouth Africa and China: the agricultural and fisheries trading relationship
09 Apr 2008 Trade Reports PublicationsA feature of world trade over the last ten years has been the dramatic growth of China’s trade with the world, and this paper examines the agricultural component of that trade. D...
read moreFuture prospects for African sugar: sweet or sour?
18 Dec 2007 Trade Reports PublicationsAfrica’s share of global sugar production is around 5.7 percent, with a similar figure for global exports but a higher one for imports. Thus the continent is a net importer. Mos...
read moreTrade Policy options for Nigeria: a GTAP simulation analysis
18 Dec 2007 Trade Reports PublicationsNigeria is the most populous country in Africa, but a low income country by the World Bank definitions. Fuels and mining products completely dominate exports, and the US and the EU...
read moreGovernance in the Value Chain for South African Wine
16 Oct 2007 Trade Reports PublicationsGlobal 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...
read moreSouth African Wine – An Industry in Ferment
16 Oct 2007 Trade Reports PublicationsSouth 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...
read moreBenchmarking EPA negotiations between EU and SADC
01 Oct 2007 Trade Reports PublicationsThis 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, ...
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 moreSafeguards in South Africa: What lessons from the first investigation?
19 Jun 2007 Trade Reports PublicationsNearly 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...
read moreRevisiting the South African-China trading relationship
08 May 2007 Trade Reports PublicationsA 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...
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