Tag: Global economy
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25 Apr 24 NewsSouth Africa initiates second dispute complaint regarding EU citrus fruit measures (WTO)
South Africa is challenging the EU’s prohibition on the importation of South African cit...
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22 Apr 24 NewsSouth Africa calls for greater engagement with Turkish businesses (Daily Sabah)
Top South African trade official emphasized Monday the vital importance of bilateral trade relation...
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19 Apr 24 NewsPatel welcomes VW’s R4 billion investment in SA (SAnews)
Volkswagen South Africa’s (VWSA) investment of R4 billion in their assembly plant in Kariega, in the Eastern Cape, has...
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16 Apr 24 NewsSouth Africa puts biggest trade partner in its crosshairs over R20 billion and 100,000 jobs (BusinessTech)
South Africa said it has taken a preliminary step toward filing a compla...
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12 Apr 24 NewsSouth Africa seeks to secure global plastics pollution treaty by balancing competing interests (Engineering News)
South Africa will seek to secure a legally binding global plastic...
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26 Mar 24 NewsProtectionism and shipping disruptions threaten agri trade (Farmer’s Weekly)
Solid business partnerships will become increasingly important to navigate market threats, according...
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22 Mar 24 News$10-billion Namibian green hydrogen project receives major German boost (Engineering News)
Namibia’s first gigawatt scale green hydrogen project – the $10-billion Hyphen devel...
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18 Mar 24 NewsSADC boosts support towards Namibia in developing a CBM National Strategy (SADC)
The Southern African Development Community (SADC), in collaboration with the Namibia Revenue Agenc...
What Happened at the WTO’s Thirteenth Ministerial Conference?
18 Mar 24 BlogThe results of the 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) – held between the 26th of February and midnight on the 2nd of March in Abu Dhabi – ...
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11 Mar 24 NewsInfrastructure finance expert commends incoming amendments to PPP framework (Engineering News)
As government garners public comment on key proposed amendments to legislation gover...
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08 Mar 24 NewsPatel meets with EV manufacturers, investors during visit to China (Engineering News)
Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Ebrahim Patel and a high-level delegation recently c...
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06 Mar 24 NewsAutomotive demand for platinum expected to hit seven-year high this year (Engineering News)
This year could potentially turn out to be quite an interesting year for platinum as a ...
What’s on the Cards for MC13? Reform, E-Commerce, Fish Subsidies and more
28 Feb 24 BlogThe World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13) has begun in Abu Dhabi, UAE, and will run until the 29th of February 2024. The list of topics and delivera...
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27 Feb 24 NewsSettling on funding solutions for expedited grid infrastructure set as a Just Energy Transition Investment Plan priority (Engineering News)
Finalising funding solutions for the ex...
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26 Feb 24 NewsOnus largely on private sector to recover economy, says Deloitte (Engineering News)
With the 2024/25 national Budget not having provided much relief to taxpayers, and the economy ...
Thirteenth WTO Ministerial Conference – Abu Dhabi, February 2024: Resource page
26 Feb 24 NewsMC13 ends with decisions on dispute reform, development; commitment to continue ongoing talks
The WTO’s 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13) took place from 26 February to 2 March...
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22 Feb 24 NewsInnovative interventions needed to turn around underperforming growth trajectory (Engineering News)
Against the backdrop of a profoundly challenging macroeconomic environment wher...
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20 Feb 24 NewsSA Canegrowers maintains sugar tax increase will destroy jobs (Engineering News)
Ahead of Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s Budget Speech on February 21, industry body the Sou...
Too Much Gloom at Davos
14 Feb 24 BlogThe organizers of the World Economic Forum (WEF) do not always get the selected theme quite right. Some years, the great and the good who attend the annual uber-capitalist event in...
The WTO Dispute Settlement Impasse: What is happening?
12 Feb 24 BlogThe WTO’s Understanding on Dispute Settlement (DSU) provides World Trade Organisation (WTO) members with a legal framework for resolving trade disputes that arise between them wh...