18/10/2005
tralac recently held its annual conference in Cape Town on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) and their impact on African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. The following is a list of all the speakers and their presentations:
* Is the Region Ready for a Modern Free Trade Agreement? - a Small Country Perspective
Dr Ron Sandrey
* Geographical Indications: Implications for Africa
Catherine Grant
* Rules of Origin under EPAs: Key Issues and New Directions
Eckart Naumann
* An evaluation of the alternatives and possibilities for countries in sub-Saharan Africa to meet the sanitary standards for entry into the international trade in animals and animal products
Gideon. K. Brückner
* An ‘Alternative' To The EPA Proposals: a Provision Dropped from the EU'S ‘EPA Negotiation Manual'?
Wallie Roux
* CARIFORUM Negotiation of an EPA: Issues and Challenges
Junior Lodge
* Conference on EPA negotiations with the European Union with consideration of the DDA of the WTO
Jurgen Hoffmann
* WTO/EPA Issues
Paulina M. Elago
* Preparing National Tariff Offers for Economic Partnership Agreements: A Discussion on Methodology
Philip Osafo-Kwaako
* Trade Policy Options for Eastern and Southern Africa
Paul Kalenga
* An African perspective on EPA's Continental and ESA level analytical results
Remi Lang
* WTO/EPA ISSUES - Article XXIV
Prof Gerhard Erasmus
* SADC-EC EPA Negotiations
Harold Mushi
