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South Africa feels the squeeze in citrus import rules dispute with WTO
TRADE RESTRICTIONS OP-ED South Africa is the world's second-largest exporter of citrus fruit. (Photo: Darren Stewart / Gallo Images) Since 2023, South African citrus growers have had to spend almost R4bn per year to comply with the additional European Union import restrictions. South Africa’s citrus industry is its largest agricultural export industry, and the country is the world’s second-largest exporter of citrus fruit.
Navigating Economic Inequalities Alongside African Digital Market Integration The Role of the AfCFTA Competition Protocol
Navigating Economic Inequalities Alongside African Digital Market Integration The Role of the AfCFTA Competition Protocol
Afrique: Protocole sur le commerce numérique pour le continent - Son importance, son contenu et ce qui manque encore
En février 2024, les chefs d'État africains ont adopté un projet de protocole visant à réglementer le commerce numérique sur le continent. Cette étape est importante, mais présente des défis pour l'économie africaine s'inscrit dans le cadre d'un accord commercial plus large, conçu pour créer un marché continental unique pour la libre circulation des biens, des services, des capitaux et des personnes. Franziska Sucker explique le protocole, son importance et ce qu'il reste à faire.
Protocole sur le commerce numérique pour l'Afrique : son importance, son contenu et ce qui manque encore
En février 2024, les chefs d'État africains ont adopté un projet de protocole visant à réglementer le commerce numérique sur le continent. Cette étape est importante, mais présente des défis pour l'économie africaine s'inscrit dans le cadre d'un accord commercial plus large, conçu pour créer un marché continental unique pour la libre circulation des biens, des services, des capitaux et des personnes. Franziska Sucker explique le protocole, son importance et ce qu'il reste à faire.
Digital trade protocol for Africa: why it matters, what’s in it and what’s still missing
In February 2024, African heads of states adopted a draft protocol to regulate digital trade within the continent. This significant yet challenging course for Africa’s digital economy fits into the broader trade agreement, designed to create a single continental market for free movement of goods, services, capital and people. Franziska Sucker explains the protocol, why it matters and what still needs to be done. What is digital trade, and how big is it in Africa?
Digital trade protocol for Africa: why it matters, what’s in it and what’s still missing
By Franziska Sucker, Associate Professor, University of the Witwatersrand In February 2024, African heads of states adopted a draft protocol to regulate digital trade within the continent. This significant yet challenging course for Africa’s digital economy fits into the broader trade agreement, designed to create a single continental market for free movement of goods, services, capital and people. Franziska Sucker explains the… Read complete article © The Conversation -
Developing countries: Protect WTO dispute settlement
The World Trade Organization’s dispute settlement mechanism has, for decades, provided stability and predictability to the resolution of disputes between member countries. As escalating global crises increasingly affect world trade, however, the WTO needs to reform or risk becoming irrelevant. Many are questioning whether the 2024 Ministerial Conference – the WTO’s highest decision making body – is the last chance to save the WTO.
Why developing countries must unite to protect the WTO’s dispute settlement system
The World Trade Organisation’s dispute settlement mechanism has, for decades, provided stability and predictability to the resolution of disputes between member countries. As escalating global crises increasingly affect world trade, however, the WTO needs to reform or risk becoming irrelevant. Many are questioning whether the 2024 Ministerial Conference – the WTO’s highest decision making body – is the last chance to save the WTO.
Why developing countries must unite to protect the WTO’s dispute settlement system
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VIRAL JUSTICE OP-ED: Why not supporting the TRIPS Covid-19 waiver contravenes international human rights
On 18 January 2021, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that the world was on the brink of a “catastrophic moral failure” if wealthier nations did not ensure the equitable distribution of vaccines to combat the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Yet, more than 10 months later, not much has changed. The iniquitous global maldistribution of Covid-19 vaccines persists and is now widely acknowledged as constituting “vaccine apartheid”.
Apoyar la exención del Acuerdo de los ADPIC para la covid-19 es un paso esencial para apoyar los derechos humanos internacionales
Aprobar una exención sería un paso vital para acelerar la ampliación de la fabricación y el suministro de productos médicos para la covid-19. El director general de la Organización Mundial de la Salud advirtió que el mundo está al borde de un “fracaso moral catastrófico” si las naciones más ricas no garantizan la distribución equitativa de vacunas para combatir la pandemia de SARS-CoV-2.
Supporting the TRIPS COVID-19 waiver is an essential step to support international human rights
A waiver would be a vital step for expediting the scaling up of manufacturing and provision of COVID-19 medical products. A nurse prepares a Sinopharm coronavirus vaccines against Covid-19 at Parirenyatwa Group of Hopsitals in Harare, Zimbabwe in November 2021. Border testing and movement controls have been put in place and being tightly enforced for travellers crossing into Zimbabwe after the outbreak of the Omicron variant of coronavirus in South Africa and Botswana.
Supporting the TRIPS COVID-19 waiver is an essential step to support international human rights
A waiver would be a vital step for expediting the scaling up of manufacturing and provision of COVID-19 medical products. A nurse prepares a Sinopharm coronavirus vaccines against Covid-19 at Parirenyatwa Group of Hopsitals in Harare, Zimbabwe in November 2021. Border testing and movement controls have been put in place and being tightly enforced for travellers crossing into Zimbabwe after the outbreak of the Omicron variant of coronavirus in South Africa and Botswana.
South Africa: Tripped Up - All You Need to Know About the Covid-19 Trips Waiver and What It May Achieve for SA (And What It Won't)
A waiver would not be a global answer to the pandemic but would be a step in the right direction. It would remove the legal barriers that prevent cross-border cooperation in generic manufacturing of Covid-19 medical products as well as cross-border manufacturing capacity building - both long-term considerations.
Maverick Citizen: Explainer: Tripped up: All you need to know about the Covid-19 TRIPS waiver and what it may achieve for SA (and what it won’t)
Activists outside Pfizer headquarters in Manhattan, New York demand that US President Joe Biden support the TRIPS waiver, which would lift the intellectual property protection for Covid-19 vaccines. (Photo: Steven Francis Kong) A waiver would not be a global answer to the pandemic but would be a step in the right direction.
South Africa Has the Legal Tools to Challenge the Vaccine Nationalism of Rich Countries
International and national legal frameworks could enable the government to ensure generic Covid-19 vaccines are manufactured locally and in other developing countries, particularly in Africa. The latter point is important as South Africa, through its chairing of the African Union (AU) and its interventions at the United Nations, has emphasised a solidarity-based approach to the use of vaccines to combat Covid-19.
OP-ED: South Africa has the legal tools to challenge the vaccine nationalism of rich countries Original
(Photo: EPA-EFE / Andrej Cukic) International and national legal frameworks could enable the government to ensure generic Covid-19 vaccines are manufactured locally and in other developing countries, particularly in Africa. The latter point is important as South Africa, through its chairing of the African Union (AU) and its interventions at the United Nations, has emphasised a solidarity-based approach to the use of vaccines to combat Covid-19.
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