Tag: World Trade Organisation

Why do countries seek trade agreements? Despite numerous and vocal critics, virtually every World Trade Organisation (WTO) member is involved in at least one (and often numerous) F...

The East African Community (EAC) partner states should ask the World Trade Organisation to unconditionally accord the Least Developed Group (LDC) an extension of the transition per...

The relevance of international commitments made by South Africa at the multilateral level became prevalent during the recent merger between Walmart and Massmart. What is the role, ...

The 2011 tralac Annual Conference took place on 8-9 September in Cape Town, South Africa. Regional integration in Africa, and in other parts of the world, is engaging a ...

All the member states of the East African Community (EAC) are also members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and are obliged to adhere to its rules on regional integration. The...

tralac collaborated with the South African Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry to present a workshop on developments in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU...

tralac hosted a half-day workshop to discuss specifically regional trade developments for Southern Africa. This workshop was prepared specifically for the diplomatic community and ...

The current Round of trade negotiations is the first ‘Development Round’. Given the challenges of addressing development issues in the context of trade negotiations in the WTO ...

tralac held its 2009 Annual Conference on the 3rd and 4th of September in Cape Town, South Africa. The aim of the Conference was to critically review the past year’s key tra...

The World Trade Organisation, in collaboration with tralac and the Universities of Pretoria and the Western Cape, presented a 5-day training course on Trade Negotiations for Englis...

tralac hosted a two-day workshop on Subsidies on 22-23 January 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa. For some countries subsidies have been and continue to be an important part of...

tralac presented a workshop in Gisenyi, Rwanda from 9 to 12 December 2008. The first part of the workshop gave participants an introduction to the role of law and institutions...

On 30 November 2007 the World Trade Organization (WTO) published draft amendments to the Agreement on Implementation of Article VI of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 199...

This paper provides an overview of the WTO’s Dispute Settlement system and gives pointers on the areas African negotiators should focus on during negotiations for reform of the s...

Agricultural trade remains an important part of overall economic activity and continues to play a major role in domestic agricultural production and employment. Hence, it’s no su...

Trudi Hartzenberg, tralac’s Executive Director, attended a meeting in Geneva on RTAs and the Multilateral Trading System. This meeting reviewed experiences from different re...

Trade liberalization has gained increasing attention both at the bilateral and multilateral level in the past two decades. We have witnessed the formation of the World Trade Organi...

This book presents the output of a tralac project focusing on the trade agenda of South Africa and the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) of which South Africa is a member. The ...

The stalling of the talks in the Doha Round at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva are leading to questions about the value of such a Round for South Africa, and against t...

A feature of the World Trade Organization (WTO) during its first ten years has been the impact of the so-called Singapore issues of investment, competition, government procurement ...