ISDS Case Map
South Africa
The EU Council of Ministers has decided to include South Africa in the SADC EPA negotiation.
A foreign mining company is suing the South African government over alleged expropriation of its mineral rights in a move that has huge implications for the country's new mining dispensation.
The deadline is looming for the day when the preferential treatment that Namibia has enjoyed for its beef, lamb and table grape exports to the European Union ends on January 1 2008.
Despite the unpopularity of the single-country partnership proposal, it is being pursued primarily based on Europe's analysis of South Africa as the “locomotive” of Africa economic development and integration.
South Korea could see its exports to South Africa soar over 30 percent if it signs a free trade agreement (FTA) with the country, a state-run think tank said Monday.
South Africa is resisting European Union (EU) efforts to treat it differently from its southern African neighbours -- a move which could result in the country getting less market access for its exports.
The South African Customs Unions (Sacu) has formally accepted an offer made by the US government to progress a so-called trade and investment cooperation agreement (Tica), following the breakdown of the more ambitious free-trade agreement (FTA) talks earlier in the year.
Negotiations towards a free trade agreement with the US have "all but come to a halt", according to Tshediso Matona, the director-general of South Africa's department of trade and industry.
The European Union (EU) and South Africa have agreed to start negotiations for a comprehensive update and revision of the Trade, Development and Cooperation Agreement (TDCA).
A number of African governments have made efforts to encourage investment in the continent by entering into bilateral investment treaties and adopting arbitration legislation.
