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    Trade and climate change: policy and economic implications for South Africa

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2011
    This paper is a scoping assessment of the inter-relationship between international trade and climate change negotiations as it affects policy development in South Africa. The paper highlights two key variants of measures that pose a challenge to both these negotiations, specifically border carbon adjustments and the liberalisation of trade in environmental goods and services.
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    Using TRIPS flexibilities to improve access to HIV treatment

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2011
    This policy brief describes how the flexibilities contained in the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement and reaffirmed by the Doha Declaration provide important opportunities for World Trade Organization (WTO) Members to reduce prices and expand access to HIV medicines.
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    South Africa and Chile - agricultural trade relationship

    National Agricultural Marketing Council, South Africa, 2010
    The objective of this paper is to uncover areas where South Africa could potentially increase its trade with Chile and what policy lessons can be taken from the Chilean experience. The paper indicates that South Africa and Chile followed similar paths in terms of the evolution of their agricultural policy, where both countries underwent significant liberalisation in their agricultural sectors.
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    South Africa’s way ahead: shall we samba?

    Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa, 2010
    This publication examines the trading implications of extending the current preferential trading agreement (PTA) between the Southern African Custom Union (SACU) and MERCOSUR to a full free trade agreement (FTA).
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    Impact assessments of changing agricultural trade agreements and tariff barriers between South Africa and European Union

    AgEcon Search, 2008
    Southern African Customs Union (SACU) and the European Union (EU) are important trading partners in agricultural supplies. The Trade Development and Co-operation Agreement (TDCA) signed in 1999 paved the way for closer cooperation in trade of especially agricultural produce.
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    South Africa and China: the agricultural and fisheries trading relationship

    Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa, 2008
    A feature of world trade over the last ten years has been the dramatic growth of China's trade with the world.  This paper examines the agricultural component of Chinese trade with South Africa, which it aims to place in broader perspective of China's global trading relationships.
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    South African quotas on Chinese clothing and textiles: has there been sufficient economic justification?

    Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa, 2007
    South Africa imposed quotas on the importation of selected clothing lines from China to slow the trade flow of imports. This paper answers the question whether those quotas are meeting their goal. To do so, it examines the changes in the trade flows of clothing since the introduction of the quotas.
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    South Africa’s wood export potential using a gravity model approach

    University of Pretoria, 2007
    The South African government has identified the wood sector as one of the priority sectors that need to be promoted and developed in order to accelerate growth and reduce unemployment and poverty. This paper analyses the determinants of exports of wood and articles of wood using a gravity model approach.
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    The impact of liberalisation on the South African economy: the case of the tourism and clothing sectors

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2007
    This paper summarises the main findings from a one-day policy dialogue on “The Impact of Liberalisation on the South African Economy: The case of the tourism and clothing sectors” held in May 2007 in South Africa. Questions guiding the dialogue included:
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    Textiles protection and poverty in South Africa

    Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2007
    An important debate is underway in South Africa, on whether it should protect its deteriorating textile industry. This paper examines whether implementing trade barriers will result in better domestic policy objectives. It provides a dynamic analysis on the link between textile protection and poverty.

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