The SA Competition Commission Designates Ecommerce as a Sector to be Controlled for Abuses of Buyer Power
The CCSA held 2 workshops on its new guidelines dated 22 May 2023 on buyer power abuses. EFSA attended the first of these workshops, on 14 June. Following the new…
Read MoreOther AfCFTA-Related News: SA Starts Workshops on the AfCFTA, the Ecobank Group Starts a Trade Hub, and the UBA Launches a Fund to Resource SMEs
The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC) is rolling out a series of awareness workshops on the AfCFTA Agreement throughout the country. The first was held in June…
Read MoreThe AfCFTA’s Draft Protocol on Women and Youth
The Women an Youth Protocol has not attracted such criticism and does look likely to get adopted by the next Ministers’ meeting. It is worth remembering, that the AU’s Maputo…
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The AfCFTA Digital Trade Protocol The hopes of the Secretariat to complete the negotiations on the Protocol by 23 July have not succeeded. The meeting of the negotiators has been…
Read MoreWTO Issues its Annual World Tariff Profiles
On 6 July the WTO issued the 2023 edition of “World Tariff Profiles”, an annual publication providing comprehensive information on tariffs imposed on imports by over 170 countries and customs…
Read MoreThe World Economic Forum’s Annual Selection of Innovators
The World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers are early to growth-stage companies from around the world that are involved in the use of new technologies and innovation that are poised to…
Read MoreEuropean Concerns over International Taxation on Cross-border Sales
Ecommerce Europe wrote to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in July to voice concerns on the potential instability of the international taxation once the present rules lapse…
Read MoreThe EU’s Data Act Gets Agreement
Under the tripartite system by which the EU adopts its legislation, the European Parliament, the Council of Ministers and the European Commission managed to strike a deal on the EU Data…
Read MoreThe OECD’s Consumer vulnerability in the digital age
The OECD has publishes a new report (https://www.oecd.org/publications/consumer-vulnerability-in-the-digital-age-4d013cc5-en.htm). This report first discusses the nature and scale of consumer vulnerability in the digital age, including its evolving conceptualisation, the role of…
Read MoreThe UK’s Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023
The UK’s Electronic Trade Documents Bill was signed into law and will come into force on 20 September. It is the most significant piece of trade law in decades and…
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