Tag: Trade regulation

A reminder: The ECOWAS Heads of State summit takes place on Sunday Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (17-19 May): presentations are now available for download Adva...

From the heat of Africa to the humidity of India via the arid desert state of Qatar, Sekandi Abdul Karim has made a 3550-mile journey to Delhi. It is his third trip to India this y...

Industrial policy initiatives are very much on the agenda at both national and regional levels in Africa. The debate, however, about what an industrial policy is and what it should...

Competitiveness is defined as the set of institutions, policies, and factors that determine the level of productivity of a country. The level of productivity, in tur...

Underway, in Oslo: Conference of Parties to FAO’s illegal fishing treaty. The first Meeting of the Parties to FAO’s bold new international treaty aimed at cracking down on illi...

Following recent public complaints and a social media campaign on twitter (#DataMustFall), the South African Government decided to investigate the concerns through the Competition ...

Executive summary At its Extra-Ordinary Summit, held on 29 April 2015, in Harare, Zimbabwe, the SADC Leaders adopted the SADC Industrialization Strategy and Roadmap 2015-2063. The...

FAO study offers policy guidance for linking half of all cross-border trade to development goals Africa’s vast but informal cross-border trade can contribute to improving liveli...

This document contains a statement provided by the African Organisation for Standardisation (ARSO) at the TBT (Technical Barriers to Trade) Committee meeting of 29-30 March 2017 un...

This Trade Brief examines an important amendment of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Trade that was approved at the 2016 SADC Summit. This amendment co...

Services trade is increasingly important, yet often restricted in developing countries, writes tralac Associate John Stuart We live in a world where the production and consumption...

We live in a world where the production and consumption of services has been growing faster than that of merchandise for some time now. However whilst considerable gains await...

Underway, in Kigali: the third Transform Africa Summit. Further details: conference website Starting tomorrow, in Maputo: the 5th Annual African Mobile Phone Services Policy Initi...

Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies said on Monday he has signed off on a safeguard duty for hot rolled coil steel, but said the measure was subject to informing the World Trade...

CFTA: Zambia may consider “a Brexit” (ZNBC) President Edgar Lungu says the Continental Free Trade Area will only succeed if African countries enhance infrastructure developmen...

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has released recommendations on rules of origin in preferential trade agreements (PTAs), highlighting the challenges traders and supplie...

Introduction At the Ninth Ministerial Conference in Bali, Ministers reaffirmed their commitment to the Work Programme on Small Economies and instructed the WTO Secretariat to pro...

Ashly Hope, tralac Associate, discusses the concept of regulatory coherence in the context of financial services regulation in Africa Modern trade agreements are concerned less an...

East African Community member states are wavering on a plan to implement an agreement on double taxation avoidance (DTA), over fears that the deal could provide a loophole for tax ...

The volume of apparel shipped to the US under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) declined by 12.1 per cent last year even as uncertainty clouds the 17-year-old preferent...