The Doha round of trade talks will not finish this year — "the 2011 window of opportunity is closed", says Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies.
The costs of South Africa’s industrial policy are clear, though its benefits are not, writes an IFP MP.
Brics nations could benefit considerably by trading directly in their own countries, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies said on Sunday.
Municipalities not exempt from the provisions of the new CPA face legal challenges if they do not deliver proper goods and services to their customers
The latest version of the Industrial Policy Action Plan will create 129 000 jobs, the Trade and Industry Minister said on Wednesday.
Despite being cleared, bigwigs at the trade department’s regulator continue to feel the heat.
The department of trade and industry has appointed an independent firm to compile a report on the dismissal of chief executive officer the EAAB.
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/ 24 February 2011
The "illicit economy" is much more of a threat to SA’s regular economy than previously thought, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies said.
SA has defended China’s investment in Africa, saying Beijing was not pursuing a neocolonial policy and that its growing interest was positive.
SA’s successful hosting of the World Cup is likely to change global perceptions of the country, Trade Minister Rob Davies said on Thursday.
A meeting between Kumba Iron Ore and ArcelorMittal hosted by Trade Minister Rob Davies on Monday resulted in a "constructive engagement".
Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies will host an urgent meeting between Kumba Iron Ore and ArcelorMittal on Monday in a bid to resolve a row.
More than 75% of companies in the private sector are not complying with broad-based black economic empowerment, it was reported on Tuesday.
The Minister of Trade and Industry, Rob Davies’s ‘new’ industrial policy contains ideas that are old and tired.
Nationalisation of South Africa’s mines is not government policy and is unlikely to become so, the trade minister said on Wednesday.
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/ 18 February 2010
SA’s new industrial policy action plan is expected to create almost 2,5m jobs over the next decade by boosting, and protecting, local factories.
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/ 19 October 2009
The Mail & Guardian and the South African Institute of International Affairs are collaborating to promote debate on trade policy reform.
The EU is too focused on commercial interests, undermining efforts to forge a new, fairer trade pact with South Africa, Rob Davies said on Tuesday.
The head of the Jazz Foundation, which has been paid out millions in Lotto grants, is also a member of the agency that considers grant applications.
Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies told Parliament that the distribution of funds from the national lottery ”remains a matter of concern”.
Local industry has been hard hit by the global crisis, which has now become a ”deep real economy and jobs crisis”, Rob Davies warned on Tuesday.
The recently signed Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) should not be allowed to undermine the SA Customs Union (SACU), Rob Davies said on Monday.
SA’s drive to create millions of job opportunities will cost R10-billion over the next three years, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies said.
SA does not expect an early end to the Doha trade talks and wants imbalances in current proposals addressed before pushing for a conclusion.
If governments take on private-sector debt created during the subprime crisis, the poor will be hardest hit, economist Iraj Abedian said in Cape Town on Tuesday. ”Heaven help us if it happens in developing countries,” he told a discussion on the global economic meltdown.
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/ 26 February 2008
The European Union is concerned about competing with China for access to resources and markets in Africa, which partly explains its drive to hook African states into economic partnership agreements (EPAs). According to South Africa’s deputy minister of trade, the EU is afraid that it will lose its foothold on the African continent
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/ 25 February 2008
African and international civil society organisations have urged the rest of the world to redouble its efforts to stop the European Union’s drive to institute economic partnership agreements (EPAs). The call for action was drawn up during a special review meeting of the Africa Trade Network in Cape Town from February 20 to 22.