Tag: World Trade Organisation
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13 May 21 NewsNational trade and trade-related news
Tackling illicit financing flows is key to funding infrastructure (IOL)
The Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan (ERRP) announced last ...
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12 May 21 NewsNational trade and trade-related news
Sugar Masterplan starting to uplift industry – DTIC (Engineering News)
The South African sugarcane industry has experienced a sharp declin...
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11 May 21 NewsNational trade and trade-related news
Going digital during pandemic signals a positive change for SMMEs – SBI (Eyewitness News)
While thousands of small businesses crumbled und...
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06 May 21 NewsNational trade and trade-related news
South African trade rises on a tide of rallying commodity prices but government must boost economy to withstand a turnaround (Daily Maverick)...
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05 May 21 NewsNational trade and trade-related news
Avian epidemic plunging poultry industry into turmoil (CAJ News)
Stakeholders are divided over South Africa’s prospects of containing the ...
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04 May 21 NewsNational trade and trade-related news
Poultry sector still on high alert for avian flu (IOL)
The South African poultry and ostrich industries continued to remain under national h...
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03 May 21 NewsNational trade and trade-related news
South Africa’s trade surplus grows to $3.67 billion in March (Reuters)
South Africa recorded its largest trade surplus on record in March,...
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30 Apr 21 NewsNational trade and trade-related news
Intellectual property rights can help combat illicit trade (News24)
The protection of intellectual property rights can go a long way to help...
Trade remedies and trade disputes: the case of the US-EU large aircraft dispute, and how these disputes can present opportunities for South Africa’s wine exports to the United States
30 Apr 21 PublicationsMost countries broadly aspire to free trade, and the benefits of international trade at times induce situations where governments support domestic industries with the objective of ...
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29 Apr 21 NewsNational trade and trade-related news
Food security fears allayed – Agbiz (IOL)
Improved agricultural conditions would not fully compensate for job losses due to the pandemic, ...
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28 Apr 21 NewsNational trade and trade-related news
Avian flu: Poultry industry hustling to save exports (Food For Mzansi)
South Africa’s poultry industry is currently working hard to safegu...
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27 Apr 21 NewsNational trade and trade-related news
Small businesses urged to challenge govt over red tape (Eyewitness News)
The biggest stumbling block to entrepreneurship and a growing econo...
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26 Apr 21 NewsNational trade and trade-related news
Increased focus on customs and excise policy framework (Moneyweb)
South Africa’s business community should brace itself for several change...
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22 Apr 21 NewsNational trade and trade-related news
Port of Cape Town requires urgent Presidential attention, says Maynier (Engineering News)
Western Cape Minister of Finance and Economic Oppo...
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21 Apr 21 NewsNational trade and trade-related news
Avian flu outbreak threatens South African poultry industry (WATTAgNet)
Exports are key to the success of South Africa’s poultry companies...
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20 Apr 21 NewsNational trade and trade-related news
Durban Port to reclaim its place as the best-performing port in Africa (SAnews)
President Cyril Ramaphosa says through both operational impr...
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15 Apr 21 NewsNational trade and trade-related news
Infrastructure development using private funding to provide benefits if projects are sustainable (Engineering News)
Infrastructure investing...
The WTO Secretariat under new Leadership
23 Mar 21 BlogOn 1 March 2021, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala from Nigeria took office as the seventh Director-General (DG) of the World Trade Organization (WTO). She is the first woman and the first Af...
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16 Mar 21 NewsCountry focus
Consumer protection bodies reminded of mandate (SAnews)
Trade, Industry and Competition Deputy Minister Nomalungelo Gina has reminded regulators with consumer prote...
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04 Mar 21 NewsCountry focus
South Africa urged to play to strengths as its plots role in lithium-ion battery value chain (Creamer Media’s Mining Weekly)
A newly released study of the p...