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We are pleased to announce that applications for our annual Certificate Course are open. This training course provides comprehensive coverage of International Trade Law and Policy from an African perspective. Read our overview below ⬇️ For more information: bit.ly/40FIRBu To apply: bit.ly/4gWcAvr

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Sign up for this webinar that spotlights on the African creative industry within the AfCFTA. As an emerging entrepreneur in digital trade who makes music on weekends with knowledge on trade policy making, I will be sharing my experience and thoughts on how Africa’s digital economy is the next big thing. They say data is the new oil and I say digital trade is the data and oil working together!! Council on Economic Policies tralac | Trade Law Centre African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat AfCFTA Youth Advisory Council

Relations between Pretoria and Washington have been under stress for some time and have now taken a turn for the worse. On 7 February 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order on “Addressing Egregious Actions of the Republic of South Africa”, focusing on SA’s land reform policies. However, there are factual errors in this Executive Order and President Cyril Ramaphosa has, in recent statements, pointed some of them out. He said South African authorities were not “confiscating land” and that his government was looking forward to working with the Trump administration “over our land reform policy.” There should be additional items on that agenda. Bilateral discussions and diplomatic initiatives are indeed called for now. ➡️ https://bit.ly/3WZYocP

The Trump Presidency has landed… with a flurry of Executive Orders This Trade Report by Prof. Gerhard Erasmus offers a brief discussion of the content and implications of some of the Executive Orders issued by President Trump thus far ➡️ https://bit.ly/4jTIP04

Two more weeks to apply for our Certificate Course on International Trade Law and Policy from an African perspective. For more information: bit.ly/40FIRBu To apply: bit.ly/4gWcAvr

tralac's own Professor Gerhard Erasmus writes on Trump's America First trade policy for Business Day: "Trump wants his own framework for international trade with the US, in the form of his America First trade policy. Several senior officials — the secretaries of state, treasury, defense, commerce and homeland security, the director of the Office of Management & Budget, the US trade representative and others — must now investigate specific trade-related issues and submit a report to him by April 1." Read more ⬇️

Fascinating insights into #trade in #SouthAfrica🇿🇦 & #Africa 🌍, access to resources, #AfCFTA and regional trends and shifts by tralac | Trade Law Centre | - thank you 🙏 for this useful annual engagement during #SONA2025 week in Cape Town Austrian Embassy Pretoria 🇦🇹 ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA in South Africa

Tariffs generally serve two purposes: to protect domestic industries and to increase revenue for the fiscus. Whether higher tariffs make economic sense, is a different matter. Economists say higher US tariffs will be inflationary, that consumers will bear the brunt, and that they will not result in extra jobs in US factories. A tariff is a tax on imports, one paid by the importing country. American companies importing goods from, for example, China, would have to pay more to bring them in. Higher tariffs mean American consumers will pay more for the imports. On 20 January, Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th President of the US. He promptly issued more than 200 Executive Orders to change America’s domestic and international policies. Some of these will, if implemented as suggested, bring about dramatic changes and have a major impact on international trade. How will this come about? For now, the answer is to be found in one of the executive instruments issued on 20 January, the Memorandum on America First Trade Policy. This tralac Blog discusses the content of this Memorandum. Once the outcome of the investigations called for under this Memorandum is known, a final assessment of the implications would become possible. ➡️ https://bit.ly/3WLsgty

Applications for tralac’s Short Course, Reading and Interpreting International Trade Agreements: Case Study of #AfCFTA, are now open! The course will run virtually from 24-28 March 2025 To apply, send your CV and brief motivation (100 words) to info@tralac.org Closing date: 20 February For more info, see https://bit.ly/3WxF5rh