tralac’s Daily News Selection
19 Apr 18 NewsExploring Malawi’s export potential (ITC)
Regional integration is the key to Malawi’s trade success, according to a new ITC report (pdf) that uncovers the country’s greatest...
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WTO Members submit proposals aimed at advancing exploratory e-commerce work
19 Apr 18 NewsOver the past few weeks, a host of submissions have been put forward by WTO members as part of exploratory work to support future talks among interested parties on the trade-relate...
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WTO’s Trade Facilitation Agreement and Doing Business reforms: Are they related and how?
14 Mar 18 NewsSmall differences in the time and cost to trade can determine whether or not a country participates in global value chains.
In this respect, the World Trade Organization’s ...
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WTO General Council chair: transparency and inclusivity important to build trust
09 Mar 18 NewsRemarks by Ambassador Xavier Carim (South Africa) at the conclusion of his final meeting as chair of the General Council
Let me start by saying that it has been a privilege to ser...
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Post-MC11: Charting a way forward for LDCs, SVEs and SSA countries
07 Mar 18 NewsThe 11th World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference (MC11) was held from 10-13 December 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, against a backdrop of considerable changes to th...
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Collective action is key to defending trade, Geneva Dialogue hears
20 Feb 18 NewsChallenges to the multilateral trading system can be met by collective institutions like UNCTAD defending trade’s power to pull more people out of poverty.
The time has come to ...
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Why Africa should not ignore what happened in Buenos Aires
15 Feb 18 PublicationsThe 11th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), held in Buenos Aires in December 2017, was a disappointment. It has been described in The Economist as “the...
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Brazil circulates proposal for WTO Investment Facilitation deal
09 Feb 18 NewsBrazil submitted an extensive draft proposal for a potential agreement on investment facilitation to the WTO’s General Council last week, in a bid to jumpstart more “...
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Informal WTO Ministerial gathering on the sidelines of the WEF emphasises the need for political discussion on development
02 Feb 18 NewsThe Informal World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial Gathering on the side-lines of World Economic Forum (WEF) was convened by Switzerland on 26 January 2018 as an opportunity f...
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When African Trade Arrangements incorporate WTO Disciplines without all Member States being WTO Members
24 Jan 18 PublicationsThis Trade Brief takes a look at a feature of African trade arrangements which has given rise to little discussion or concern. The legal instruments underpinning African trade arra...
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Trade Policy Review: The Gambia
23 Jan 18 NewsThe first review of the trade policies and practices of the Gambia takes place on 23 and 25 January 2018. The basis for the review is a report by the WTO Secretariat and a report b...
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Developing countries should continue trade-easing reforms in wake of WTO deal
08 Jan 18 NewsThe Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) commits World Trade Organization (WTO) members to streamlining cross-border trade, but reforms can go further, an UNCTAD report says.
New UN...
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A nervous WTO Ministerial in Buenos Aires
15 Dec 17 PublicationsThe word indaba has found widespread use throughout Southern Africa. It refers to an important meeting, usually of like-minded people, to decide matters of mutual concern...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection
14 Dec 17 NewsFeatured tweets on MC11 dynamics, outcomes:
@sdonnan: There’s an alternative narrative emerging this morning [Wednesday] at WTO MC11. Just had someone make case to me that we ar...
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WTO Ministerial: In landmark move, country coalitions set plans to advance on new issues
14 Dec 17 NewsThe WTO’s Eleventh Ministerial Conference has drawn to a close, capping a busy week of talks which saw members only able to endorse limited substantive outcomes at the multilater...
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Global civil society reactions to end of WTO Ministerial Conference
14 Dec 17 NewsThe World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial conference in Buenos Aires concluded without a formal statement, reflecting the deep divide between poorer countries who have demande...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection
13 Dec 17 NewsABCA call for papers: Examining the challenges and opportunities of firms’ productivity in Africa
Consultancy opportunity: Develop a SADC trade development and trade promot...
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Buenos Aires Declaration on Women and Trade outlines actions to empower women
13 Dec 17 NewsFor the first time in the history of the World Trade Organization, WTO members and observers have endorsed a collective initiative to increase the participation of women in trade.
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Public and private sector leaders exchange best practices to implement Trade Facilitation Agreement
13 Dec 17 NewsPublic and private sector leaders on 12 December exchanged insights on implementing the World Trade Organisation’s landmark Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) to fully reap the b...
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Fisheries subsidies at the Eleventh WTO Ministerial Conference – Deal or no deal?
13 Dec 17 NewsOn Monday at the Eleventh WTO Ministerial Conference, the UNCTAD event on ‘Trade, Fisheries Subsidies and SDG14’ provided a platform for discussion to give a deeper understandi...
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