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Mooted free-trade area seen boosting intra-African minerals trade flows
20-Sep-2015 Mining Weekly
Formal negotiations are taking place among the 54 member States of the African Union to create a free-trade zone on the continent by 2017.
Towards post-Western investment law?
14-Sep-2015 Voelkerrechtsblog
International Investment Law (IIL) has always been a battleground of competing paradigms and imaginations of economic world order. Today, the old battles between North and South over the rules of global investment are considered history.
Trade barriers in India delaying India-SACU PTA: South African official
4-Sep-2015
Delays in finalising a Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) between India and the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) have been largely caused by different processes in Indian states and resistance to New Delhi’s wide-ranging goods list, a senior official said here.
Why South Africa’s health minister is so worried about India caving in to big pharma
11-Aug-2015 Scroll.in
A big supplier of cheap lifesaving drugs to developing nations, India admirably balances public health needs with private profits and innovation. But it is under pressure to change this model.
International investment agreements and Africa’s structural transformation: a perspective from South Africa
9-Aug-2015 South Centre
The brief describes the widening debate on the implications of international investment agreements for sustainable development and outlines the broad features of alternative policy approaches to foreign direct investment
L’Afrique du Sud souhaite renforcer son commerce avec le Vietnam
5-Aug-2015 Le Courrier du Vietnam
Durant son séjour en Afrique du Sud, le vice-Premier ministre vietnamien Hoàng Trung Haile et le vice-président sud-africain Cyril Ramaphosa ont discuté du renforcement de leur coopération dans l’économie, le commerce et l’investissement
South Africa’s revocation of its bilateral investment treaties – analysis
6-May-2015 EurAsia Review
From an international policy point of view, South Africa’s denunciation of BITs is reasonable. It may even be seen as a refreshing retreat from a legal quagmire. But the domestic reality requires wider consideration.
Agoa bill proposes three-year timeline for SA
17-Apr-2015 Business Day
A bill to renew the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) for 10 years would give the US Trade Representative expanded authority to deal with countries considered non compliant, like South Africa.
Barriers to SA markets a concern for US
15-Apr-2015 Business Day
The failure of the US and South Africa to achieve a free trade agreement in 2006 came to haunt them on Tuesday as their delegations gathered for consultations under the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement signed in 1999.
SADC signs EPA with EU
23-Jul-2014 Business Day
Countries in the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) have signed the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union.
SA among Sadc nations to initial EU trade pact
19-Jul-2014 Business Day
Aafter 10 years of negotiations, a regional Southern African Development Community (Sadc) group, of which South Africa is a part, has "initialled" an Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union, the Department of Trade and Industry said on Thursday.
Dutch unfazed by SA’s cancelled trade treaty
17-Jul-2014 BD
South Africa’s unilateral cancellation of its bilateral investment treaty with the Netherlands, a major trade and investment partner, does not appear to have dampened the Dutch appetite for investment in the country.
Canada targets South Africa as priority market in Africa
24-Jun-2014 Globe and Mail
Canadian Trade Minister Ed Fast said he will continue to lobby South African leaders about the benefits of bilateral investment treaties, despite their rejection of the idea. Canada signed a BIT with Burkina Faso this month and Fast announced this week that Madagascar is moving toward a similar deal with Canada.
South Africa-Brazil FTAs will impact Namibian beef industry
30-May-2014 New Era
South Africa’s negotiations with Brazil to sign FTAs to allow the import of cheap meat into South Africa will have implications for Namibia.
South Africa-Brazil FTAs will impact Namibian beef industry
28-May-2014
Free trade agreements won’t hold favourable implications for Namibia’s weaner industry and the opportune thing for local producers along with government, is to get together and have a round table discussion to come up with plans on how to convert potential challenges into opportunities.
Investor treaties in trouble
25-Mar-2014
Several countries are reviewing these agreements, prompted by the number of cases brought by foreign companies who claim that changes in government policies affect their future profits.
South Africa: FAQs on foreign direct investment featured
5-Mar-2014 TheTrade Beat
Foreign direct investment (FDI) has recently been a hot topic in South Africa, following the government’s unilateral cancellation of bilateral investment treaties with the European Union and the release of the draft Promotion and Protection of Investment Bill. But what is FDI, and why is it important?
Stir over end to trade deals fades
5-Feb-2014 Business Day
A stir greeted last year’s announcement by the South African government that it would not be renegotiating bilateral investment agreements with major trading partners such as the EU. However, it now seems as if a lot of dust has settled around the Promotion and Protection of Investment Bill, which is set to replace the agreements.
SACU: Dead man walking?
28-Jan-2014 Trade Beat
Late last year, the African cyberspace was buzzing with rumours that the region’s oldest trade agreement, the Southern African Customs Union or SACU was about to be finally killed off by South Africa. From Windhoek to Cape Town to Mbabane, trade policy wonks were debating what the most recent moves from Pretoria regarding SACU really meant.
Investment deal? Just watch it
2-Jan-2014 The Hindu Business Line
In the last couple of years, South Africa has become the unlikely champion of the anti-BIT movement.