Tag: SACU - tralac trade law centre

Conclusion of the Bilateral Tariff Negotiations between SACU and the EAC

07 Jun 19 News

Press release The COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA), which was launched on 10th June 2015, aims to establish a single market for 27 African countries with a co...

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14 Mar 19 News

The GTR AFRICA 2019 conference starts today in Cape Town. Twitter updates: #GTRAFRICA The WTO’s 2019 Public Forum theme has been announced: Trading forward – adapting to a cha...

SACU, Mozambique make progress on impending Brexit

14 Mar 19 News

Substantial progress has made to conclude a Roll-Over Economic Partnership Agreement between SACU, Mozambique and the UK. The Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies says pr...

How will South Africa engage the Region, the Continent and the World?

01 Mar 19 Blog

In the African context, South Africa is a trading nation. What does the State of the Nation Address (SONA) 2019 say about South Africa’s trade policy? President Ramaphosa emphasi...

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14 Feb 19 News

Negotiating African trade policy: Event reminders Expert meeting on Non-Tariff Barriers (NTB) Reporting, Monitoring and Elimination under the AfCFTA (concluded today in Nairo...

Lesotho: Intra-Africa trade and tariff profile

20 Dec 18 Resource

This Trade Data Update provides an overview of Lesotho’s intra-African trade relationships, both within the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and with other individual African...

Namibia: Intra-Africa trade and tariff profile

20 Dec 18 Resource

This Trade Data Update provides an overview of Namibia’s intra-African trade relationships, both within the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and with other individual African...

SACU’s Trade Facilitation Programme: Talking Regional Customs Modernisation

14 Dec 18 Blog

Trade 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...

What is a Customs Union like SACU about?

14 Dec 18 Blog

From 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...

Revenue sharing in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU)

14 Dec 18 Blog

All 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...

Southern African Customs Union (SACU)’s trade and tariff profile

14 Dec 18 Blog

The 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...

The Process for Amending or Reviewing the SACU Agreement

14 Dec 18 Blog

There 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...

SACU’s operational Challenge

14 Dec 18 Blog

What 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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05 Dec 18 News

tralac 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...

WCO and SACU region celebrate successful conclusion of the regional Customs Modernization Programme

05 Dec 18 News

Back 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...

SACU at a tipping point? tralac workshop, 8-9 November 2018

08 Nov 18 Event

tralac 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. ...

Monitoring Regional Integration in Southern Africa Yearbook 2017/18

06 Nov 18 Publications

Monitoring 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...

Botswana State of the Nation Address 2018

06 Nov 18 News

Delivered 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...

Termination of the South Africa-Zimbabwe Trade Agreement: What next?

05 Oct 18 Publications

The 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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13 Sep 18 News

Featured 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...