Trade & Investment - 18 June 2003

Trade & Development

SAIIA (The South African Institute of International Affairs) has recently established a trade strategy programme, called "Development Through Trade". The programme, funded by the DFID and USAID, is being managed by Peter Draper, a newly appointed research fellow. It aims to facilitate dialogue between business, government, and civil society over trade policy issues. In this regard, they have made available the programme's first publications.

Peter Draper's working paper reviews the South African government's trade strategy with a view to identifying its key drivers and likely future directions. The Trade Policy Briefing was compiled by Frances Perkins, an Australian government official. From the perspective of a key Cairns group member it looks into issues pertaining to African agricultural trade liberalization within the context of the Doha Development Round of multilateral trade negotiations in the WTO.

Please note that both analyses are in pdf-format and that Adobe Acrobat is required to read it. Free software is available from Adobe for this purpose. If you have any queries about the reports please call the Institute on (011) 339 2021, or email Peter Draper.

Listed below are various trade and investment opportunities both locally and internationally.

These opportunities have been forwarded to the WesVaal Chamber of Business from various sources. In no way are any of the opportunites endorsed by or affilliated with the WesVaal Chamber of Business.

While every care is taken to ensure that only legitimate opportunities are listed here you are still encouraged to take the same amount of care as you would with any other business opportunity.

GTN Trade Leads

Current members of GTN can simply log in at www.usgtn.net using their GTN Account Name /Password and send LOIs to leads they are interested in.

Companies not yet registered with GTN but interested in any of the attached leads, and also interested in joint venture/agent/distributor/export/import relationships, are kindly requested to contact the GTN/SA office for more information about the U.S Global Trade & Technology Network (GTN) program. The GTN/SA office can be contacted at (011) 234 1549/67/74.

The new leads for June can be downloaded in Zipped MS Word format from here and here.