Tag: Trade governance

The Trade Law Centre (tralac) was invited to contribute to the Inquiry on the UK’s Africa Free Trade Initiative (AFTi); which took place on 19 April 2016. Trudi Hartzenberg ackn...

Regional courts are increasingly becoming important in entrenching rules-based governance for regional trade and integration and ensuring the protection of private party rights. D...

Tax evasion by multinational companies, drug trafficking, smuggling, bribery and embezzlement are the main conduits On matters pertaining to Africa’s socioeconomic and political...

Since the 1990s, perception-based measures have been influential in determining levels of corruption on the continent. The fourth Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) African Gover...

In April 2015, the Extra-Ordinary Summit of the Heads of State and Government from the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) adopted the Revised Regional Indicative Strategi...

Towards rules-based governance in African trade and integration tralac hosted its Annual Conference on 7 and 8 April 2016 in Swakopmund, Namibia. Continuing tralac’s commitment ...

The facts pertaining to the recent difficulties between the United States and South Africa about the latter’s continued enjoyment of the trade preferences of the African Growth a...

William Mwanza, tralac Researcher, provides a review of key trade-related developments in 2015 The past year has seen a number of important developments in trade and trade-related...

tralac participated in the Nairobi Trade and Development Symposium (TDS) organised by the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) in partnership with the...

Johannesburg Declaration (Combined Version of Africa and China) We, the Heads of State, Government and Delegations of the People’s Republic of China and 50 African countr...

Brian Mureverwi, tralac intern, comments on the launch of a new flagship trade report from The Commonwealth Secretariat The Commonwealth Secretariat is launching its inaugural Tra...

On 29 October 2015, tralac hosted a workshop on the contemporary legislative and governance needs of Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland (BLNS) with respect to the promot...

International agreements on the promotion and protection of foreign investment do not guarantee investments; nor the right kind. They do, however, play an important role as part of...

The judgment by the First Instance Division of the COMESA Court of Justice in Polytol Paints & Adhesives Manufacturers Co. Ltd (Applicant) versus The Republic of Mauritius...

The SADC Summit of Heads of State and Government takes place this week (17-18 August 2014). This occasion presents an important opportunity for decisive deliberations on an integra...

South Africa is not an island, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Wednesday, and economic growth and development depends on the extent to which the country is integrated with ...

In a landmark case involving Polytol Paints and Mauritius, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Court of Justice First Instance Division made a ruling that su...

The SADC Heads of State and Government Summit set for Lilongwe, Malawi this week will deliberate on a wide range of regional issues including the appointment of a new leadership fo...

Earlier tralac research (Sandrey et al., 2011) explored the economic background to the so-called Tripartite Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the Common Market for Eastern and Sou...

In 2012/2013, the African National Congress and South African Government adopted the National Development Plan (NDP) as its launchpad and blueprint for a future economic and socioe...