tralac’s Daily News Selection
14 Feb 19 NewsNegotiating African trade policy:
Event reminders
Expert meeting on Non-Tariff Barriers (NTB) Reporting, Monitoring and Elimination under the AfCFTA (concluded today in Nairo...
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SACU’s Trade Facilitation Programme: Talking Regional Customs Modernisation
14 Dec 18 BlogTrade Facilitation in SACU
Generally, the Trade Facilitation process intends to reduce impediments and bottlenecks in cross-border trade and thus promote a seamless movement of go...
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Southern African Customs Union (SACU)’s trade and tariff profile
14 Dec 18 BlogThe members of SACU are Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, Namibia and South Africa. SACU’s objectives include to, inter alia, facilitate cross-border movement of goods between me...
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What is a Customs Union like SACU about?
14 Dec 18 BlogFrom a legal and technical point of view the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) is a Customs Union (CU) and an international organization with legal personality. Since a CU is a...
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Revenue sharing in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU)
14 Dec 18 BlogAll customs, excise and additional duties (trade taxes) collected in the SACU Common Customs Area are paid into the Common Revenue Pool and shared among member states. Member state...
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SACU’s operational Challenge
14 Dec 18 BlogWhat does the 2002 SACU Agreement promise in terms of how the Organization would function? What did the Member States subsequently do in order to ensure that the agreed formula wou...
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The Process for Amending or Reviewing the SACU Agreement
14 Dec 18 BlogThere are strong indications that the SACU Agreement may be amended – or “reviewed” – during the next year.[1] Why has this become necessary and what would such a process e...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection
05 Dec 18 Newstralac in the news at AEC2018: ”We have learned a lot of lessons,” Trudi Hartzenberg, Executive Director of the Trade Law Centre, said. “We have a window to build capaci...
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WCO and SACU region celebrate successful conclusion of the regional Customs Modernization Programme
05 Dec 18 NewsBack in 2014, the World Customs Organization (WCO), the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) Secretariat and the five Customs administrations of the SACU region (Botswana, Lesotho...
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SACU at a tipping point? tralac workshop, 8-9 November 2018
08 Nov 18 Events Calendartralac hosted a two-day workshop in Cape Town in early November 2018 to discuss the future of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), the oldest customs union in the world. ...
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Monitoring Regional Integration in Southern Africa Yearbook 2017/18
06 Nov 18 PublicationsMonitoring Regional Integration in Southern Africa is celebrating its 15th anniversary. This edition includes a review of the developments since 2001, the year when the first editi...
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Botswana State of the Nation Address 2018
06 Nov 18 NewsDelivered by Dr. Mokgweetsi E.K. Masisi, President of the Republic of Botswana, to the First Meeting of the Fifth Session of the Eleventh Parliament, 5 November 2018
Mister Speake...
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Termination of the South Africa-Zimbabwe Trade Agreement: What next?
05 Oct 18 PublicationsThe Government of South Africa has recently given notice of its intention to terminate the 1964 Zimbabwe-South Africa Bilateral Trade Agreement, with effect from 20 November 2018. ...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection
13 Sep 18 NewsFeatured trade, regional policy events:
(i) In Abidjan. @ECOWASParliamnt: Parliament-arians convene in Abidjan for the three day seminar on African Continental Free Trade Area. C...
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IMF Executive Board 2018 Article IV Consultation with Botswana
06 Sep 18 NewsBotswana: Mining a New Growth Model
Botswana is one of the few countries in sub-Saharan Africa that has truly benefited from its mineral wealth. Revenues from diamond mines, combi...
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Joint statement on UK, SACU and Mozambique EPA
29 Aug 18 NewsJoint meeting of the United Kingdom (UK), Southern African Customs Union member states (SACU) and Mozambique trade ministers on a future UK, SACU and Mozambique Economic Partnershi...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection
24 Jul 18 NewsTomorrow, in Sandton: (i) BRICS Business Forum; (ii) The Africa Investment Forum on the theme of attracting private sector investment into Africa; (iii) BRI...
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Namibia reviews position on Sacu revenue
24 Jul 18 NewsCabinet has approved that Namibia continues consultations to refine the country's position on the Southern African Customs Union revenue-sharing agreement.
This was said by deputy...
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tralac’s Daily News Selection
02 Jul 18 NewsBRICS Industry and Trade ministers meet this week in South Africa (4 and 5 July, respectively, pdf)
Diarise: Launch of the AUC’s inaugural African Development Dynamics Report (1...
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Sixth Summit of the SACU Heads of State or Government: Communiqué
01 Jul 18 NewsThe Sixth Summit of Heads of States and Government of the Southern African Customs Union (Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Eswatini, former Swaziland) took place on 29 ...
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