Discussions
African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and the private sector
29 Mar 2018Camille Andriamahatana, tralac Intern, and Talkmore Chidede, tralac Researcher, discuss the importance of engagement with the private sector in successfully implementing the AfCFTA...
read moreWhat does the Adoption of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement signify?
29 Mar 2018Trudi Hartzenberg, tralac Executive Director, and Gerhard Erasmus, tralac Associate, discuss the significance of the launch of the AfCFTA
At the Extraordinary Summit of the Africa...
read moreHow will the AfCFTA be established and its Legal Instruments be implemented?
22 Mar 2018Gerhard Erasmus, tralac Associate, comments on the legal arrangements for the establishment of the AfCFTA
The first two legal instruments for launching the African Continental Fre...
read moreHow will the AfCFTA co-exist with other African Trade Arrangements?
22 Mar 2018The text of the Agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) contains several provisions about how this new trade arrangement will co-exist with the Regi...
read moreLaunching the AfCFTA: Getting the Politics and the Expectations right
22 Mar 2018There is renewed interest (and excitement) about the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The first in a series of agreements to launch this continental trade arrangement ...
read moreThe African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and non-tariff barriers (NTBs)
22 Mar 2018Willemien Viljoen, tralac Researcher, discusses how the AfCFTA can help address the challenge of non-tariff barriers faced by African traders
Non-tariff barriers are some of the m...
read moreTrade in services and the AfCFTA: No service is an island
15 Mar 2018Ashly Hope, tralac Research Coordinator (trade in services and regulation), discusses services trade under the African Continental Free Trade Area
The contribution of the services...
read moreThe legal and institutional architecture of the Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area
15 Mar 2018What is the African Continental Free Trade Area?
In January 2012, the African Union (AU) Heads of State and Government (HOSG) adopted a decision to establish an African Continenta...
read moreSADC EPA TRQ Utilisation Update and opportunities under SADC EPA
15 Mar 2018Taku Fundira, tralac Associate, discusses tariff rate quotas under the SADC-EU Economic Partnership Agreement
November 1, 2016, marked a new era in the European Union (EU)’s tra...
read moreControversy over American Tariffs on imported Steel and Aluminium
15 Mar 2018Gerhard Erasmus, tralac Associate, comments on the recently announced tariffs on steel and aluminium imports into the United States
On Thursday 8 March 2018 the American President...
read more2017 in trade – green shoots in Africa?
15 Dec 2017While globally protectionist sentiment and economic nationalism continue to rattle the multilateral trading system, here on the continent, even amongst serious political upheavals,...
read moreThe Appellate Body Crisis
15 Dec 2017The dispute settlement mechanism of the WTO has been a major innovation in international dispute settlement. It is often referred to as the jewel in the crown of the WTO system. It...
read moreAfrica must industrialise
06 Dec 2017Industrialisation is part of the process of economic transformation – expanding and diversifying the productive base of the economy (creating more and different kinds of value ad...
read moreFrom the TDCA to the SADC-EU EPA – the significant changes
06 Dec 2017The Trade, Development and Cooperation Agreement (TDCA) has been governing the trading relationship between South Africa and the European Union since it entered into force (provisi...
read moreSafeguard measures in the SADC-EU Economic Partnership Agreement
06 Dec 2017Safeguard measures are a temporary restriction, of fairly traded products, to protect a specific domestic industry from a sudden increase in imports which causes serious injury to ...
read moreExport opportunities for South African producers under the new market access conditions in the SADC-EU EPA
06 Dec 2017The new market access provisions of the SADC-EU EPA came into effect on 1 November 2016 after two conditions were met: ratification of the EPA by the SACU member states and the bil...
read morePreparing for Buenos Aires, can the WTO Deliver on Nairobi Promises?
30 Nov 2017In December 2017, the 164 member states of the World Trade Organization (WTO) will convene the 11th Ministerial Conference (MC11) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This is the first time...
read moreA new Dawn for Zimbabwe!
23 Nov 2017The jubilation in the streets of Harare is one of the most telling aspects of the ousting of Robert Mugabe as President of Zimbabwe. Zimbabweans rejoiced because the shackles of po...
read moreUnited States anti-dumping duties on steel rods from South Africa
23 Nov 2017On 25 October 2017 the United States (US) Department of Commerce announced the commencement of preliminary anti-dumping duties on imports of carbon and alloy steel wire rod from se...
read moreThe COMESA Court of Justice clarifies important Jurisdictional Issues
16 Nov 2017Africa’s trade and integration endeavours are anchored in international legal instruments. This suggests that certain practical benefits should follow: Legal certainty about comp...
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