Tag: Trade regulation
The Russia-Ukraine war has triggered the use of export restrictions on essential food supplies by some WTO members prompting food insecurity and rising food prices
13 Jun 22 PublicationsThe conflict in Ukraine has caused a global economic and humanitarian catastrophe. The global catastrophe encompasses human suffering, loss of lives, global food price increases, f...
The Russia-Ukraine war has triggered the use of export restrictions on essential food supplies by some WTO members prompting food insecurity and rising food prices
13 Jun 22 BlogIntroduction
The conflict in Ukraine has caused a global economic and humanitarian catastrophe that ranges from human suffering, loss of lives, global food price increases, food s...
The U.S. anti-dumping investigation against lemon juice exports from South Africa: background, recent updates and next steps
30 May 22 PublicationsSouth African producers and exporters of lemon juice (and no doubt exporters of citrus fruit) received an unwelcome surprise early January 2022 that a California-based company prod...
Thinking about Trade Governance as Good Governance
24 May 22 BlogDuring a recent tralac workshop, we included a practical session on remedies for private parties when they encounter customs and border administration problems and when government ...
tralac Daily News
26 Apr 22 NewsDomestic news
AfCFTA not quite the SMME trade silver bullet SA hoped (Daily Maverick)
A draft ANC policy document, which was among several discussed at the ANC’s national ...
African Union Assembly Decision of February 2022 on Trade in Goods under the AfCFTA
11 Apr 22 BlogThe Decisions, Declarations, Resolution and Motions adopted at the Thirty-Fifth Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Assembly, which took place in Addis Ababa on 5-6 February...
The AfCFTA Tariff Negotiations face unique Challenges
11 Apr 22 BlogPreferential trade in goods under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) will only become possible once schedules of tariff concessions have been agreed and have entered ...
tralac Daily News
23 Mar 22 NewsLocal news
South Africa takes massive digital leap forward, says Ramaphosa (Engineering News)
Last week, government concluded the auction of high-demand spectrum for mobile telec...
tralac Daily News
18 Mar 22 NewsLocal news
4th SA Investment Conference 2022 (Mail & Guardian)
In an effort to boost economic growth and facilitate the creation of more employment opportunities, President C...
South African lemon juice exports face American anti-dumping duties
07 Mar 22 BlogOn December 30, 2021, the United States International Trade Commission (USITC or I.T.C.) received a request from Ventura Coastal LLC, an American firm, to undertake an investigatio...
Intra-Africa Non-tariff Trade Costs for the period 2015-2019
28 Feb 22 InfographicsThis infographic takes a look at the trade costs associated with non-tariff barriers to trade in Africa, i.e., all costs associated with the trading of goods bilaterally between tr...
tralac Daily News
21 Feb 22 NewsCountry-related news
Presidential Climate Change Commission discusses risks of net-zero carbon emissions for South Africa (The Mail & Guardian)
The Presidential Climate Chang...
Trade Remedies and Safeguards: Important for States and Private Parties
21 Feb 22 PublicationsPart 4 of the AfCFTA Protocol on Trade in Goods contains several provisions on trade remedies and safeguards. Article 17 states that the State Parties may apply anti-dumping and co...
Will Trade Remedies be used as part of Trade Governance under the AfCFTA?
21 Feb 22 PublicationsVery few African States are active users of trade remedies and safeguards as part of their trade governance and trade policy implementation. Only four African countries – Egypt, ...
The AfCFTA Trade Remedy Regime can enhance rules-based Trade Governance
21 Feb 22 PublicationsSince only a small number of African States are active users of trade remedies and safeguards, the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement’s ...
2021: Review of ITAC Investigations in a Pandemic Environment
06 Feb 22 PublicationsThe aim of the International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (ITAC), as mandated by the International Trade Administration Act, 2002 (the ITA Act), is to foster eco...
What if? Another footnote to the demise of the SADC Tribunal: Henred Fruehauf Zambia Limited v Zambia Revenue Authority
01 Feb 22 BlogWhen the leaders of the SADC member states decided in 2012 to scupper the SADC Tribunal instead of standing up to the instigator, Zimbabwe, they might not have foreseen the institu...
tralac Daily News
01 Feb 22 NewsCountry-related news
Trade Statistics for December 2021 (South African Revenue Service)
SARS has released trade statistics for December 2021 recording a preliminary trade ba...
Africa and the adoption of HS2022: Implementation update, impact and consequences in the context of AfCFTA
01 Feb 22 PublicationsThe new edition of the Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System 2022 (HS2022) entered into force on the 1st of January 2022. This development means that Customs tariffs, ...
tralac Daily News
31 Jan 22 NewsCountry-related news
Green energy transition will help South Africa become more resilient, competitive (Engineering News)
South Africa needs more power generation to overcome the...