The chair conducted a study on service trade liberalization in Oman collaboration with the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. The service sector in Oman contributes around 41% to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and has shown a sustained annual…
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are part of numerous free or preferential trade areas and are in the process of completing or negotiating others outside the Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA). In this proposed study we…
The Chair is a member of the UNDP-SIDA working group on trade and sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the Arab region. The working group mission is to develop trade policy proposals within the Greater Arab Free Trade Area (GAFTA) that will…
For the Fourth consecutive time and in collaboration with WTO, SQU held the Regional Trade Policy Course (RTPC) for the Middle East and North African Countries (MENA) starting on October 8 to November 30, 2017 and running for 8 weeks.
TRADE members attendance at various international conferences.
On 13 and 14 March 2018, the TRADE research entity together with TRADE Advisory held their 3rd annual TRADE-DSM® User Group Conference.
WTO sponsored awards for the best Master's degree dissertation in International Trade (Mr Tiaan Cloete), the best PhD (Ms Carli Bezuidenhout) and the best research paper on a WTO related topic (Dr Noleen Pisa, Prof Wilma Viviers and Prof…
Two TRADE newsletters were sent out during the reporting period to 640 recipients, with an additional newsletter planned for October 2018.
A. Thirteen TRADE-DSM® training workshops Several training workshops for users of the TRADE-DSM® took place throughout the year. These workshops have provided an opportunity to publicize WTO links and expand and cement relationships with…
Prof Wilma Viviers and Mr Martin Cameron were keynote speakers at the Agricultural Business Chamber (Agbiz) Congress which took place from 7-8 June 2018 in Port Elizabeth. Their topic was 'Developing strategies for export promotion using a…