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    Who benefits from South Africa’s bilateral trade agreements?

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    Trade liberal is ation is a key component of South Africa’s post-Apartheid development strategy, aimed at accelerating growth and creating employment. There is evidence suggesting that multilateral reforms over the last decade have been successful.
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    South Africa’s current and future trade agreements

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2010
    South Africa initiated the first trade agreement with the European Union (EU) at the turn of the 21st century. Whilst the Trade and Development Cooperation Agreement (TDCA) was put into place follow ing prolonged negotiations, this was followed by the implementation of the Trade protocol with neighbouring member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
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    The geographic designation of Special Economic Zones

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2014
    Special economic zones (SEZs) emerged internationally as a policy to support industrial development in particular by providing for the introduction of targeted incentives and infrastructure. Internationally, despite their name, they are often effectively delinked from specific geographic areas in order to achieve these aims.
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    Export market selection methods and the identification of realistic export opportunities for south africa using a decision support model

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2009
    Market selection methods, of which a vast number exist, are a critical tool in firms’ and government’s policy, planning and budgeting processes. To this end, the primary aim of this paper is to determine the international market selection method best-suited to the identification of potential export opportunities for South Africa.
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    Restructuring ports for improved investment

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2013
    The change in the traditonal role of ports in the global logisistcs supply chain has necessitated restructuring in many ports worldwide, leading to the revision of national port strategies as well as the legislative and regulatory environment.
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    South Africa’s super-exporters

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2014
    The export market offers an opportunity for South African firms to grow beyond the limitations of the local market, and employ more people. Exporting encourages innovation (through international competition) and leads to improved product quality. 
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    Southern Africa Customs Union: getting ready for services negotiations

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2011
    For many African states, negotiations to liberalise trade in services is a relatively new experience.
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    Mega-regional trade agreements: strategic implications for South Africa

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    For many years the Doha Round of negotiations of the World Trade Organization (WTO) had been in the doldrums, with little apparent prospect of success in its primary aim. In the wake of the ninth WTO ministerial conference in Bali in December 2013 there is renewed optimism that the WTO can deliver, and that something can still be made of the Round.
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    South Africa’s relations with China and Taiwan: economic realism and the ‘One China’ doctrine - Policy Brief

    Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2014
    In 1998, after the fall of apartheid, South Africa commenced diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC). This ‘normalisation’ of South Africa’s China policy came with a condition to recognise Beijing’s ‘One China’ policy proclaiming Taiwan an inalienable part of China.
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    South African relations with China and Taiwan: economic realism and the ‘One - China’ doctrine

    Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2014
    This report examines the extent of political reach into the economic exchanges occurring between China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Africa. Our report focusses on South Africa’s ability to navigate its way through this challenging relationship, highlighting South Africa’s ability to adapt to new political contexts.

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