Tag: World Trade Organisation
Second Regional Dialogue on WTO Accessions for the Greater Horn of Africa: Djibouti Outcome
18 Dec 18 NewsTrade for Peace through WTO Accessions
Introduction
The Second Regional Dialogue on WTO Accessions for the Greater Horn of Africa took place in Djibouti from 3 to 6 December 2018...
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17 Dec 18 NewsToday’s event listings:
Underway, in Cairo: African Civil Aviation Commission and preparatory technical committees (17-20 December), under the framework of the COMESA airspace i...
East African bloc agrees to make trade cheaper, faster and simpler
14 Dec 18 NewsMeeting in Nairobi, East African Community (EAC) ministers pledge to undertake trade facilitation reforms in line with continental and WTO agreements.
Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, the ...
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12 Dec 18 NewsStarting tomorrow:
Ministerial Retreat, in Nairobi, on trade facilitation in the EAC: ministers are expected to adopt a declaration of policy objectives for a regional trade f...
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29 Nov 18 NewsAfCFTA ratification update, @GovUganda: Today (Wednesday) the Instrument of Uganda’s ratification of the AfCFTA was officially handed over to the African Union Commission. Uganda...
Committees are cornerstone of pan-African trade dream, NTFC Forum hears
28 Nov 18 NewsNational trade facilitation committees can make the dream of seamless African trade a reality, experts tell Addis Ababa forum on easing the flow of goods on the continent.
The dre...
Smooth African trade to tackle rising challenges: UNCTAD head
27 Nov 18 NewsCompetitive transport, logistics and foreign investment are essential to ease intra-African commerce and reap rewards of new deal, meeting hears.
Smoothing the way for African tra...
African countries focus on global trade prospects, challenges
27 Nov 18 NewsTrade officials and experts from Commonwealth African countries gathered in the Seychelles recently to discuss regional and global trade issues affecting their growth and developme...
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26 Nov 18 NewsAfrican trade and infrastructure events starting today:
PIDA Week 2018, in Victoria Falls. Nepad CEO, Ibrahim Assane Mayaki: “As regional integration arrangements deepen and...
WTO reform: EU proposes way forward on the functioning of the Appellate Body
26 Nov 18 NewsToday, the European Union (EU) together with other members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) – Australia, Canada, China, Iceland, India, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, S...
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22 Nov 18 NewsWTO updates:
(i) G20 economies: WTO report shows sharp rise in trade-restrictive measures
A total of 40 new trade-restrictive measures were applied by G20 economies during the re...
WTO report shows sharp rise in trade-restrictive measures from G20 economies
22 Nov 18 NewsThe WTO’s 20th monitoring report on Group of 20 (G20) trade measures issued on 22 November shows that the amount of trade covered by new import-restrictive measures hit a new hig...
WTO members review regional trade agreements covering EU, Ghana and EAEU
22 Nov 18 NewsWTO members reviewed the interim Economic Partnership Agreement between the European Union (EU) and Ghana at the meeting of the Committee on Regional Trade Agreements on 19 Novembe...
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21 Nov 18 NewsThe WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body meets today: selected updates
India asks WTO to set up panel against US for imposing higher duties on steel, aluminium. China, the EU, Mexi...
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19 Nov 18 NewsPan-African policy events starting today:
Africa Industrialization Week 2018 [ODI blog: Five new ways to promote African industriali-sation]
Workshop on Continental Tran...
WTO members adopt roadmap for reducing technical barriers to trade
19 Nov 18 NewsWTO members achieved a breakthrough at a 14-15 November meeting of the Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) by agreeing on a list of recommendations that aim at reducing ...
Assuring Continuation of Effective WTO Dispute Settlement
18 Nov 18 BlogUntil the past few years, for many there was widespread complacency over the existence and state of the liberal world trading system. If progress was needed that could not be achie...
Regional Integration as a building block for the Multilateral Trading System
18 Nov 18 BlogThe signing of the Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) by African countries earlier this year was a momentous decision which could potentially alter the economic growth traje...
A WTO multilateral investment facilitation agreement: An African perspective
18 Nov 18 BlogInvestment at the WTO
Investment was introduced onto the World Trade Organisation (WTO) agenda in 1996 at the First WTO Ministerial Conference held in Singapore, when member state...
Modernisation of the multilateral trading system – WTO reforms
18 Nov 18 BlogThe multilateral trading system and the World Trade Organisation (WTO) are today under threat. The system is being shaken by increasing protectionism and the imposition of non-tari...