Tag: Trade regulation
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07 Aug 17 NewsUpdates on African air traffic, cargo (IATA)
African airlines’ traffic soared 9.9% in June. Capacity rose 7.1%, and load factor jumped 1.7 percentage points to 64.3%, although ...
African countries must even out trade to promote integration
07 Aug 17 NewsThe impounding of over 400 Namibian, Tanzanian, South African and Congolese trucks by Zambian authorities from February to July 2017 has raised serious questions on two important m...
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04 Aug 17 NewsConcluding today, in Gaborone: 2017 African Caucus
Governors of the World Bank Group and the IMF, and delegates from countries on the African continent met here in Gaborone on Thu...
Illicit financial flows and political institutions in Kenya
03 Aug 17 NewsThe conventional Neoclassical literature views illicit financial flows (capital flight) to be a result of portfolio choice decisions by utility optimizing agents. These flows are s...
UN urges legal interventions to transition Africa to green economy
28 Jul 17 NewsAfrica urgently requires policies and regulatory frameworks to be able to resolve threats posed by environmental degradation to fasten a switch to green economy, a UN official said...
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27 Jul 17 NewsThe Continental Free Trade Area in Africa: a human rights perspective (pdf)
This human rights impact assessment, like others, advocates for the prioritization of concerns of all m...
Kenyan products blocked as Tanzania ignores trade truce
27 Jul 17 NewsThe long-running cross-border trade spat between Kenya and Tanzania has resumed barely four days after the two countries signed a pact removing restrictions that had cost traders b...
Members issue joint call for safeguarding the WTO-based global trading system
27 Jul 17 NewsAzevêdo reports on status of negotiations; stresses continued importance of transparency
In a gathering of all WTO members on 25 July, Director-General Roberto Azevêdo called fo...
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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Trade experts fault US over AGOA review
24 Jul 17 NewsThe American government has been faulted by trade and economic experts for the out-of-cycle review of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) which could see Rwanda and East ...
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 ...
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21 Jul 17 NewsFrancis Mangeni: Industrialization in Africa
Good practice would suggest that acquisition and deployment of technology, building a sound technological base, harnessing innovations...
Sustainability provisions in regional trade agreements: Can they be multilateralised?
21 Jul 17 NewsWith the rise of deep-integration regional trade agreements (RTAs), the role of sustainable development has become an inevitable discussion. Recent agreements reflect a trend in fa...
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19 Jul 17 NewsEast African Community legal notice: assorted Customs Union notices, related decisions (pdf, 30 June)
East African Business Council: Annual Report 2016/2017
During the past year,...
Uganda and the EAC should stand firm on the decision to progressively phase out second hand clothes
17 Jul 17 NewsCivil society organizations under their umbrella “Working Group on Trade & Development” have requested the government of the republic of Uganda and the East African Communi...
Countries urged to reap benefits of food trade by engaging in standards setting
13 Jul 17 NewsFAO and WTO facilitate developing nations’ participation in fast-moving $1.7 trillion global food trade
Participation in the development of international food standards for trad...
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11 Jul 17 NewsPosted: The Little Green Data Book 2017 (based on World Development Indicators 2017 and its online database)
Underway, in New York: ECOSOC High-Level Political Forum review of 203...
IMF Executive Board 2017 Article IV Consultation with South Africa
07 Jul 17 NewsOn June 26, 2017, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund concluded the Article IV consultation with South Africa.
Living conditions have ameliorated substantially ...
National security reasons to limit imports of steel and aluminium – cunning or careless?
05 Jul 17 DiscussionWillemien Viljoen, tralac Researcher, comments on the possibility of the United States imposing trade restrictions on steel and aluminium imports as a measure against potential thr...
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05 Jul 17 NewsStarting tomorrow, in Dar es Salaam: SADC DFI Network bi-annual meetings
Presentations, documents: UNCTAD’s Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Consumer Protection Law and Pol...