Tag: Trade negotiations
2017 African Prosperity Conference: Update on the Continental Free Trade Area negotiations
25 Sep 17 News‘Africa needs the CFTA to prosper economically’
President of the Ghana National Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Nana Dr. Appiagyei Dankawoso I, has stated that Africa needs ...
African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States’ agricultural trade and the World Trade Organization negotiations
20 Sep 17 NewsThe long-running World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha negotiations remain unresolved. The stumbling block in 2008 was the intransigence of the United States of America over domestic...
CFTA Negotiations – the end game
14 Aug 17 NewsAt their last summit this July, the African presidents reiterated their determination to launch the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) this year, that is, by December 2017. They di...
WTO NAMA negotiations: transparency versus the right to regulate
26 Jul 17 DiscussionWillemien Viljoen, tralac Researcher, comments on the non-agricultural market access negotiations at the WTO and the proposal to enhance transparency of regulatory trade measures
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Goods negotiations restart, members divided on transparency proposal
24 Jul 17 NewsWTO members on Friday (21 July) took up a proposal which proponents said would facilitate the participation of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in global trade by ...
African Union Commission to enhance the proposed options for CFTA negotiations modalities
16 Jan 17 NewsAfrican Union Commission (AUC) Experts in Trade-related issues were brainstorming in Nairobi, Kenya, within the framework of the 7th meeting of Continental Free Trade Area Continen...
The lack of African countries’ participation in the WTO Environmental Goods Agreement negotiations – what does the data say?
07 Dec 16 DiscussionWillemien Viljoen, tralac Researcher, discusses African countries’ noticeable absence in the ongoing multilateral negotiations on environmental goods
According to the WTO Doha M...
Subsidiarity: Should it be included as a guideline for the CFTA Negotiations?
27 Oct 16 PublicationsAfrica’s integration agenda has always been an ambitious one. The typical approach is to target trade in goods and for the Member States to determine, in advance, the timelines f...
Continental free-trade negotiations to conclude by 2017
27 May 16 NewsPresident Jacob Zuma said continental leaders are envisaging to conclude negotiations on the continental free-trade area by next year.
He also said the continent should work...
Approaching the CFTA services negotiations: Which way towards delivery by 2017?
19 May 16 NewsWhat are the business challenges that need to be addressed in the CFTA services negotiations and how to engage with the private sector in this process? Is it possible for the agree...
WTO members “still interested” in securing results in rules negotiations
31 Mar 16 NewsWTO members clearly remain interested in achieving results in the negotiations on rules, despite the lack of an outcome in the sector during last December’s Nairobi Ministerial C...
Getting the Continental Free Trade Area negotiations underway
11 Mar 16 NewsNegotiators adopt Procedural Rules for the CFTA Trade Negotiating Forum
It is imperative that African negotiators remain on course as they push for a single market for goods and s...
ECOWAS/UNCTAD/GIZ Stakeholder Consultation on the Development of a Regional Strategy for the CFTA Negotiations
11 Mar 16 NewsThe Trade Directorate at the ECOWAS Commission is in the process of formulating an ECOWAS Regional Strategy for engagement with other partners in the Continental Free Trade Area (C...
How to get out of the box on SDT and move the SDGs and the WTO negotiations ahead?
08 Mar 16 NewsTarget 10a of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted as part of the 2030 Agenda by the United Nations last year provides that “the principle of special and differential...
Where to from here for the Tripartite FTA negotiations on movement of business persons?
02 Mar 16 DiscussionJB Cronjé, tralac Researcher, comments on negotiations towards an agreement on movement of business persons under the Tripartite Free Trade Area
At the launch of the negotiations...
Critical Issues in the Negotiations of the Continental Free Trade Area
02 Mar 16 PublicationsOn 15 June 2015, the African Union Assembly launched the negotiations to establish the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) by 2017. Experience of existing Free Trade Areas (FTAs)&nb...
The Agriculture Negotiations at the World Trade Organization: An update after the Nairobi Ministerial Conference
03 Feb 16 PublicationsThe Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) was the outcome of the Uruguay round of multilateral trade negotiations (1986-1994). The objective of the AoA was to remove agricultural trade di...
The Agriculture Negotiations at the World Trade Organization (WTO)
18 Dec 15 PublicationsThe Doha Development Agenda (DDA) owes its existence to the fourth WTO Ministerial Conference held in Doha, Qatar in November 2001, which resulted in the Doha declaration. There we...
African Union warms up for CFTA negotiations
04 Dec 15 NewsAs we approach the start of negotiations for the establishment of the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA), the African Union (AU) held a series of three meetings on enhancing i...
Workshop on Trade in Services Modalities for CFTA Negotiations, 24 November 2015
03 Dec 15 EventThe African Union Commission (AUC) hosted a workshop on modalities for trade in services negotiations for the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) at the Newlands Sun Hotel in Cape T...