Tag: World Trade Organisation

Launched today in Abuja: Nigerian Tax Research Network Profiled presentations from UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Board meeting: Evolution of the international trading system an...

Fostering synergies and coherence between regional integration and the multilateral trading system through WTO accessions 1.  Introduction The Regional Dialogue on WTO Acces...

African accessions to the WTO: What has been done? What remains to be done? [Presentations at this week’s Regional Dialogue on WTO Accessions for the Greater Horn of Africa] ACB...

The Trade Preferences Extension Act (TPEA) of 2015, which extended the AGOA trade preference program through 2025, requires that the Administration annually publish a Federal ...

Trade Environment The Interim Agreement establishing a Framework for an Economic Partnership Agreement between the EU and the Eastern and Southern African (ESA) States (Madagascar...

Featured infographics from tralac’s latest resource page: (i) South Africa’s trade relationship with Africa, (ii) US – Africa trade profile 2010-2016, (iii) Africa’s used c...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kenya, the University of Nairobi and the WTO opened the first Regional Dialogue on WTO Accessions for the Greater Horn of Africa on 28 August in ...

Gerhard Erasmus, tralac Associate, discusses the possibility of a China-US trade war and what this would mean for African governments There have been several recent media reports ...

Meaning of trade remedies Trade remedies have been variously defined, for instance: “The term trade remedy measures or, simply trade remedies, generally refers to three types o...

The WTO’s latest World Trade Outlook Indicator (WTOI) suggests that global merchandise trade growth will continue to strengthen in the third quarter of 2017. The latest reading...

Trade ministers from the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) discussed trade facilitation, economic and technological cooperation, and the multilateral trade syst...

As requested by members behind seven fisheries subsidies proposals, the chair of the WTO Negotiating Group on Rules (NGR), Ambassador Wayne McCook (Jamaica), circulated to WTO memb...

BRICS countries – Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China, and South Africa – have emerged as important players in global services trade in the past decade. BRICS services...

Starting on Monday: 2nd SADC Industrialisation Week: Partnering with the private sector in developing industry and regional value chains. Southern Africa Trust briefing 37th Ordin...

The Continental Free Trade Area in Africa: a human rights perspective (pdf) This human rights impact assessment, like others, advocates for the prioritization of concerns of all m...

Azevêdo reports on status of negotiations; stresses continued importance of transparency In a gathering of all WTO members on 25 July, Director-General Roberto Azevêdo called fo...

Concluding today, in Addis: AU Specialized Technical Committee on Transport, Trans-Regional and Interregional Infrastructure, Energy and Tourism Next week, in Shanghai: BRICS trad...

Willemien Viljoen, tralac Researcher, comments on the non-agricultural market access negotiations at the WTO and the proposal to enhance transparency of regulatory trade measures ...

New proposals in agriculture talks form “tangible steps” forward WTO members welcomed, at an informal agriculture negotiating session on 19 July, a recent surge of proposals a...

AU members should honour financial contributions: Namibia’s PM (New Era) Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila has called on all member states of the AU to honour their asse...