A configuration of trade regimes in Eastern and Southern Africa region: Implication for deeper integration and WTO compatibility

dc.contributor.advisorKalula, Evance
dc.contributor.authorBusieka, Wycliffe M
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-04T08:05:43Z
dc.date.available2023-09-04T08:05:43Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.date.updated2023-09-04T08:05:20Z
dc.description.abstractThis work has examined the implication the proliferation of identical econOITllC groupings portends for the east and southern Africa region. The thrust of the study here has been to interface and interrogate the incidence of the configuration of integration regimes in the east and southern Africa region. The work has investigated the question as to whether the proliferation of trade regimes has prepared a fertile ground for greater and deeper integration in the region. The thesis has also interrogated the proposition that such proliferation is the very antithesis of the desired goal to promote trade harmonization and reach out for deeper integration in the region. Importantly this work has ventured to query the confluence of identical trade regimes in view of the compatibility imperative as enshrined in the wro legal framework. We have examined the implication this configuration of integration regimes portends for the wro disciplines. This work conunenced with an extensive examination of current works on regional integration regimes in general and integration initiatives within the east and southern Africa region in particular. The interrogation exercise was premised on works, both economic surveys and legal treatises undertaken on the recently concluded EU-SA free trade agreement, the SADC Trade Protocol, the COMESA Treaty and the Cotonou Agreement. The actual texts of these instruments form the bulk of the sources. We note that without exceptlon, significant and to that extent costly restructuring programs will have to be undertaken by States in the east and southern Africa region in response to the disruptive EU-SA trade partnership. We have established that these integration regime scores well on the imperative of wro compatibility. We gather that the present wro structures are not malleable enough for the cash strapped sub-Saharan Africa trade regimes to reconfigure themselves in such a way as to deepen the integration agenda. We have urged for more flexibility in the wro framework on this score to augment integration processes currently crowding the regional landscape. Mataywa W Busieka - 10th July, 2003
dc.identifier.apacitationBusieka, W. M. (2003). <i>A configuration of trade regimes in Eastern and Southern Africa region: Implication for deeper integration and WTO compatibility</i>. (). ,Faculty of Law ,Department of Commercial Law. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38354en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationBusieka, Wycliffe M. <i>"A configuration of trade regimes in Eastern and Southern Africa region: Implication for deeper integration and WTO compatibility."</i> ., ,Faculty of Law ,Department of Commercial Law, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38354en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationBusieka, W.M. 2003. A configuration of trade regimes in Eastern and Southern Africa region: Implication for deeper integration and WTO compatibility. . ,Faculty of Law ,Department of Commercial Law. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38354en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Doctoral Thesis AU - Busieka, Wycliffe M AB - This work has examined the implication the proliferation of identical econOITllC groupings portends for the east and southern Africa region. The thrust of the study here has been to interface and interrogate the incidence of the configuration of integration regimes in the east and southern Africa region. The work has investigated the question as to whether the proliferation of trade regimes has prepared a fertile ground for greater and deeper integration in the region. The thesis has also interrogated the proposition that such proliferation is the very antithesis of the desired goal to promote trade harmonization and reach out for deeper integration in the region. Importantly this work has ventured to query the confluence of identical trade regimes in view of the compatibility imperative as enshrined in the wro legal framework. We have examined the implication this configuration of integration regimes portends for the wro disciplines. This work conunenced with an extensive examination of current works on regional integration regimes in general and integration initiatives within the east and southern Africa region in particular. The interrogation exercise was premised on works, both economic surveys and legal treatises undertaken on the recently concluded EU-SA free trade agreement, the SADC Trade Protocol, the COMESA Treaty and the Cotonou Agreement. The actual texts of these instruments form the bulk of the sources. We note that without exceptlon, significant and to that extent costly restructuring programs will have to be undertaken by States in the east and southern Africa region in response to the disruptive EU-SA trade partnership. We have established that these integration regime scores well on the imperative of wro compatibility. We gather that the present wro structures are not malleable enough for the cash strapped sub-Saharan Africa trade regimes to reconfigure themselves in such a way as to deepen the integration agenda. We have urged for more flexibility in the wro framework on this score to augment integration processes currently crowding the regional landscape. Mataywa W Busieka - 10th July, 2003 DA - 2003_ DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Commercial Law LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 2003 T1 - A configuration of trade regimes in Eastern and Southern Africa region: Implication for deeper integration and WTO compatibility TI - A configuration of trade regimes in Eastern and Southern Africa region: Implication for deeper integration and WTO compatibility UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38354 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/38354
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationBusieka WM. A configuration of trade regimes in Eastern and Southern Africa region: Implication for deeper integration and WTO compatibility. []. ,Faculty of Law ,Department of Commercial Law, 2003 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38354en_ZA
dc.language.rfc3066eng
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Commercial Law
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Law
dc.subjectCommercial Law
dc.titleA configuration of trade regimes in Eastern and Southern Africa region: Implication for deeper integration and WTO compatibility
dc.typeDoctoral Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoral
dc.type.qualificationlevelPhD
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