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TradeBarriers.Org: Facilitating Trade Through Information on Non-Tariff Barriers

TradeBarriers.Org: Facilitating Trade Through Information on Non-Tariff Barriers

Introduction * On behalf of the joint International Trade and Investment Law Practicum at the University of Ottawa and Queen’s University (“the Joint Clinic”), Simon Gollish, Andrew MacDonald, and Alina Smirnova (“the Team”) are grateful for the opportunity to work on a project for the benefit of the East African Community Secretariat (“the Beneficiary”). This project continued the work completed by a Queen’s Law team last year. The team focused on suggesting improvements to

Understanding Trade Rules in the Digital Age

Understanding Trade Rules in the Digital Age

How technology can facilitate user engagement with trade agreements Clinic: Queen's/UOttawa, Spring 2019 Beneficiary: TRALAC Executive Summary (The full report can be read here)* Trade agreements are often written in language that users cannot understand without guidance from trade experts. This language creates a knowledge-based trade barrier. The objective of this TradeLab project is to explore how technology can be used to make trade agreements more accessible so that thos

Uganda: Reference Guide for Legal Issues facing Social Entrepreneurs

Uganda: Reference Guide for Legal Issues facing Social Entrepreneurs

Clinic: Georgetown University Law, Spring 2019 Beneficiary: United Social Ventures Executive Summary Read the full guide here This Reference Guide (Guide) is meant to be a practical tool to assist social enterprises in understanding the most common legal issues that will arise at an early stage in an enterprise’s development. These include legal issues related to (1) formalizing a business; (2) choosing to register as a for-profit or non-profit entity; (3) registering a busi

Analysis of AfCFTA's Protocol on Trade in Services and Strategy for Country A

Analysis of AfCFTA's Protocol on Trade in Services and Strategy for Country A

Clinic: Graduate Institute, Fall 2018 Executive Summary* ** * Executive Summary in French below ** Confidential Report The agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was signed in March 2018 by 44 members of the African Union. If ratified, this agreement will create the world's largest free trade area. As the first phase of the AfCFTA negotiations ends, the State Parties to the AfCFTA wish to develop a strategy to promote their interest in the tra

Sustainable Development and Public-Private Partnership Legislation

A technical review of domestic legislation Clinic: Monash University, October 2018 Beneficiary: Observatory for Sustainable Development Executive Summary The full report along with the Consolidated Database, Model Provisions and Legislation Repository can be found here. The video to the student presentation can be accessed here. This study examines whether legislation governing Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in a sample of non-OECD countries in Sub-Saharan Africa aligns w

African Continental Free Trade Area Investment Protocol

African Continental Free Trade Area Investment Protocol

Clinic: Queen's/UOttawa, Canada Non-Confidential Summary The rationale for an investment protocol in the AfCFTA: How will it contribute to Africa’s sustainable development? Introduction This confidential project is authored by Alex Etkin, Ece Melisa Celebican, and Wil Longard (University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law). At the request of Phil Rourke and Rosemina Nathoo from the Centre for Trade Policy and Law, the authors prepared this project to (1) develop a rationale for an inv

East African Community: Non-Tariff Barriers & Trade Facilitation

East African Community: Non-Tariff Barriers & Trade Facilitation

Clinic: uOttawa-Queen's Joint Clinic, Spring 2018 Beneficiary: East African Community Secretariat Executive Summary The full report can be read and downloaded here. Trade facilitation, or the simplification and harmonization of trade processes, has emerged as a vital element in the effort to stimulate global economic development. Simplification and harmonization of trade processes play a key role in the elimination of Non-Tariff Barriers (NTBs), reducing the cost of cross-bor

Why Should Somalia Join the WTO?

Why Should Somalia Join the WTO?

(Note: This confidential project is the work of Hélio Eduardo de Paiva Araújo, Melchior Jordan Kuo, and John Nyanje (The Graduate Institute, Geneva)) Non-Confidential Summary Acceding to the WTO is a positive project that can help Least Developed Countries (“LDC”) governments establish strong rule-based domestic institutions. LDC entrepreneurs also benefit through involvement in the accession process and through access to global markets. The WTO is comprised of 164 member sta

What Holds African LDC Exports Back?

What Holds African LDC Exports Back?

Trade-Restrictive Measures (TRM) are an area of huge concern to importers and exporters in African Union Least Developed Countries (AU LDCs) located in Sub-Saharan Africa. This report identifies and analyses discriminatory government policies that adversely affect AU LDCs over the period 2009 to 2017 by using the Global Trade Alert database, a database that collects information on trade-discriminatory measures implemented by countries worldwide. The research by the students s

The EAC-EU EPA and Brexit: Legal and Economic Implications for EAC LDCs

The EAC-EU EPA and Brexit: Legal and Economic Implications for EAC LDCs

This report presents a legal and economic analysis of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European Union (EU) and the East African Community (EAC), the EPA's relation to the rules of the WTO, and the implications of the UK’s departure from the EU on EAC LDCs-EU trade. It considers the obligations of EAC parties under public international law, the WTO, the EAC treaties and under the EPA itself. The report also assesses whether EAC members are currently under a

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