EPA Negotiations Trying on Regional Relations
At the end of December 2007 the WTO waiver which exempted the EU’s non-reciprocal trade arrangements with the ACP countries expired. In advance of this expiry there was a veritable flurry of negotiati ...Read More

Draft Tariff Amendments for 2008
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has proposed tariff amendments to a host of goods. A draft containing the proposed tariff amendments has been placed on their website and interested persons ...Read More

SA President Sites Multilateral Flaws
South African President, Thabo Mbeki, contends that while the concepts of freedom, justice and equality are core to the United Nations, global governance has fallen short of the institutional transfor ...Read More

South African preliminary safeguard measure overturned by the courts
The International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (“ITAC”) imposed a safeguard duty on the 11th May 2007 on lysine powder imported from the United States into the Southern African Cust ...Read More

G8 Summit Weak on Trade
Realistically the business of breaking the WTO’s negotiating inertia is likely to be conducted at the politically orientated level, where compromises can be sanctioned from the highest levels, than at ...Read More

GATS in action – opening a bank branch in Zambia
In this issue we take a look at the World Trade Organisation’s (“WTO”) General Agreement on Trade in Services (“GATS”) and its application in the financial services sector. More specifically we look a ...Read More

Disclosure of Grey or Parallel imports required
As from 9 February 2007 businesses selling grey or parallel imports will have to disclose this fact to consumers. This is in accordance with a regulation which the Minister of Trade and Industry signe ...Read More

Anti-dumping Regulations to be revised
The International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC) published a draft proposal for the revision of South Africa’s anti-dumping regulations in November 2006. The document, officially titled ‘The D ...Read More