Tag: Trade negotiations

JB Cronjé, tralac Researcher, comments on trade in services in the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) negotiations The negotiations to establish a Free Trade Area amongst the Mem...

Strengthening African services negotiation capacity UNCTAD, in collaboration with the African Union Commission, is holding a training Workshop on Trade in Services negotiations fo...

CUTS-Nairobi held project inception meetings under ‘Integrating the Voice of CSOs in Regional Integration Process in Eastern and Southern Africa’ (IVORI-ESA) project in Nairobi...

The United Nations is in the process of defining a post-2015 development agenda. This agenda will be launched at a Summit in New York in September 2015, currently being elaborated ...

African economic integration is a longstanding ideal; regularly confirmed in declarations adopted at meetings of African Governments. The Abuja Treaty, for example, records many de...

As Africa hosts the 3rd Financing for Development meeting in Addis Ababa, Mr. Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary of the United Nations of Economic Commission for Africa is confident...

The East African Community has drafted a negotiation framework to guide its trade negotiations with third parties, including the US, the European Union and China, which are some of...

JB Cronjé, tralac Researcher, comments on developments in the TFTA negotiations on movement of business persons In June 2015, the Members of the Common Market for Eastern and Sou...

We, the Heads of State and Government of the African Union, meeting at the 25th Ordinary Session of our Assembly in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 14 to 15 June 2015; Recalling ...

JB Cronjé, tralac Researcher, discusses recent developments in the establishment of the Tripartite FTA and what still lies ahead Four years after the launch of negotiations for t...

The African Union Assembly launched the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) negotiations during the 25th Extraordinary Summit of Head of States and Governments on 15 June in Johanne...

JB Cronjé, tralac Researcher, discusses the ongoing trade in services negotiations in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) The SADC Protocol on Trade in Services sta...

The three-day Senior Officials’ Meeting segment of the African Union Ministers of Trade (AMOT), commenced on Monday at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Th...

The three-day Experts’ Meeting segment of the African Union Ministers of Trade (AMOT) opened on Friday at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The objective i...

The 4th Meeting of the Continental Task Force (CTF), commenced on 10 April 2015 in Dakar, Senegal. The meeting was organized by the Department of Trade and Industry of the Africa U...

After their meeting on 9 and 10 March 2015, senior officials from Member States of East and Southern Africa (ESA) agreed to resume negotiations with the EU within the framework of ...

Mauritius will join the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) Negotiations, in line with the General Agreement of Trade in Services (GATS) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The ...

Statement by Mr Sindiso Ngwenya, Secretary General of COMESA and Chairperson of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Task Force, to the African Union High Level African Trade Committee (...

The 4th High Level African Trade Committee (HATC) meeting kicked off on 29 January 2015 in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa on the sidelines of the 24th Ordinary Session of the Summit of the ...

The objective of this paper is to firstly set the background for a discussion and analysis of Burundi and its merchandise trading background before presenting a more detailed analy...