Tag: World Trade Organisation

National Economist: COVID effects will be determining factor in SA’s economic growth (Eyewitness News) Economists say the effects of the Omicron variant and the ability of busi...

National South Africa is failing to ride the digital revolution wave. What it needs to do (The Conversation Africa) Workplaces are adopting new forms of advanced automation at a ...

National SA’s trade surplus narrows to R19.78bn in October (Moneyweb) South Africa’s trade surplus narrowed to R19.78 billion ($1.23 billion) in October from a revised surplu...

National Cyril Ramaphosa | Let’s focus on the continent for renewed trade and investment opportunities (News24) Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic last year, which coi...

National CSIR’s initial circular economy study shows potential to create economy-wide value (Engineering News) The initial findings from the Council for Scientific and Industri...

The WTO negotiations on Public Stockholding (PSH) for food security purposes is one of the highly contested topics in the agriculture negotiations. PSH programmes are instruments t...

National Additive manufacturing in South Africa boosted by local technology developments (Engineering News) Although the Covid-19 pandemic has had a very real impact on the secto...

National South Africa urges careful planning for end of coal (Engineering News) South Africa’s energy department has said it will start preparing for the end of coal-for-power ...

National Tanzania’s exports to Kenya double to Sh20 billion in six months (Business Daily) Kenya’s imports from Tanzania doubled to Sh20.5 billion in the first half of the ye...

National Maersk - Grindrod JV to offer end-to-end logistics in South Africa (Logistics Update Africa) A. P. Moller - Maersk announced its intention to form a joint venture with G...

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the limitations in the WTO rules on export restrictions. Consequently, the food importing countries such as Japan, Singapore, ...

National Traxtion prepares to make use of ‘rare’ private sector rail opportunity (Engineering News) Private rail freight operator Traxtion sees the national government’s st...

It is a long-held view of developing countries in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that some restrict-ions imposed by WTO trade rules and trade related agreements tend to hinder ...

Domestic trade news Economists satisfied with MTBPS but still concerned over SA’s growth, debt (Eyewitness News) While economists have welcomed the revenue windfall which has b...

National Trade Statistics for September 2021 (South African Revenue Service) The South African Revenue Service (SARS) today releases trade statistics for September 2021 reco...

The Trade Law Centre (tralac) organised a webinar on 8 November 2021 focusing on specific developments related to negotiations at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on Agriculture,...

As the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is gearing up for the 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) in November/December 2021, an outcome in the agriculture negotiations is high on the ...

National Opinion: Breaking the stranglehold on growth and recovery (Engineering News) In its ’South African Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan’, the government speaks ...

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) held a ministerial meeting on 15 July 2021 to discuss the progress of the fisheries subsidies negotiations. The discussions emphasised that the c...

The World Trading System is back on the agenda. Trade ministers from around the world met in Geneva, Switzerland, in July, to review the progress in fisheries negotiations in prepa...