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2009/02/13
R Davies: Competition Commission Public Sector Consultative Forum
To give effect to this, the 1998 Act created new institutions: the Competition Commission, the Competition Tribunal and the Competition Appeal Court with defined responsibilities to investigate, adjudicate and rule on matters covered by the Act. Both the industrial policy and the consumer issues lay behind the amendments to the Competition Act put forward in the 2008 Competition Amendment Bill. This led to an amendment of the Competition Act to provide that the competition authorities could ... [highlighted result]
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2008/11/14
The Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry (the dti), Dr Rob Davies, cautioned South Africans on the reputation risks posed by the influx of imitation goods, particularly given the government's emphasis on promoting genuine, locally-produced products during the 2010 Fifa World Cup, to boost the country's economic growth. Davies added that the decision on granting recognition for particular marks and names, in connection with the 2010 World Cup, was a product of considerable negotiation between... [highlighted result]
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2008/11/12
R Davies: Service Exporter Network annual meeting and conference
Of that what we call our "back bone infrastructure," consisting of energy, transport, services and telecommunications, provide 18 percent of service sector's contribution to Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and eight percent of service sectors contribution to employment. Public service sectors such as education, health and social services, contribute 39 percent of service sector's contribution to GDP, and 47 percent of their contribution to employment. Private service sectors such as tourism, ... [highlighted result]
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2008/10/17
R Davies: International Trade and Administration Commission (ITAC) anniversary
ITAC exists as an independent body, subject to the constitution and the law, and to any trade policy directive issued by the Minister of Trade and Industry. It conducts investigations on receipt of applications, and makes recommendations on proposed tariff changes or the application of trade remedies to the Minister of Trade and Industry and to the Minister of Finance. The National Industrial Policy Framework states, and I quote, "our fundamental approach is that tariff policy should be ... [highlighted result]
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2008/05/29
R Davies: Trade and Industry Dept Budget Vote debate 2008/09 NCOP
The instruments which we have developed since 1994 include Industrial Development Zones (IDZs) and the Spatial Development Initiatives (SDIs), sometimes known as Corridor Programmes. A number of candidates for Special Economic Zone Status have already been identified, including the Mzimbuvo Development Zone in the Eastern Cape, the Northern Cape Diamond Hub, the Wadeville Industrial Corridor in Gauteng, the Durban Clothing and Textile Special Economic Region, Agro Processing Special Economic ... [highlighted result]
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2008/05/28
R Davies: Trade and Industry Dept Budget Vote 2008/09
This is the experience that has confronted us both in the World Trade Organisation Doha Development Round negotiations, and in the Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations with the European Union. In the Economic Partnership Agreements with the European Union, we have had to confront a situation in which in order for African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries to secure improved access for their products to the European Union market, they have had to make substantial commitments to the ... [highlighted result]
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2008/04/22
R Davies: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Mr President, South Africa is firmly committed to building strong South - South trade co-operation. It is against this background that South Africa began an active strategy of global strategic engagement with countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. South Africa contributes to the economic regeneration of the continent by promoting development oriented integration with countries in Southern Africa and by forging economic ties with key economies on the rest of the continent. [highlighted result]
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2008/04/16
R Davies: Biennial Gambling Conference and Exhibition
The gambling industry in South Africa operates as a regulated industry. Prior to 1994, gambling activities, apart from horse race betting, were illegal in most of the territory of South Africa. We in government and in Parliament are well aware that the gambling industry, like many others, is a dynamic sector in which there are emerging new forms of activity, including activities that transcend national borders. [highlighted result]
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2008/04/07
R Davies: Commonwealth Secretariat and African, Caribbean and Pacific Secretariat Conference
This was spurred on by the imminent expiry at the end of 2007, of the World Trade Organisations (WTO) waiver for the Cotonou preferences, and the implicit threat that if a WTO compatible alternative did not come into force by 1 January 2008, many ACP countries would find themselves trading with the European Union (EU) on significantly worse terms. We now meet in the second quarter of 2008, with one ACP region having signed a full Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) and several other regions ... [highlighted result]
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2008/04/03
R Davies: South African Sugar Association opening of the season event
The South African sugar industry is an important economic sector which makes a significant contribution to income and employment. Two black owned milling companies, i.e. Ushukela Milling and Umvoti Transports, jointly own 12 percent of South Africa's sugar milling capacity and 10 percent of South Africa's refining capacity. Tongaat Hulett sugar that accounts for 30 percent of the sugar industries total annual production, has also sold 25 percent of its shares to black owner-growers. [highlighted result]
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2008/04/04
R Davies to address Economic Partnership Conference, 7 to 8 April
The conference is organised by the Secretariats of the Commonwealth and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, in co-operation with the Trade Law Centre of South Africa (TRALAC). Participants will include trade ministers and lead negotiators ACP countries, representatives from Brussels and Geneva-based Ambassadors, Commonwealth member countries, academics, NGOs and trade experts. The SADC EPA group of countries is not composed of all the fourteen SADC Member States, but is ... [highlighted result]
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2008/04/03
R Davies: South African Sugar Association opening
The South African sugar industry is an important economic sector which makes a significant contribution to income and employment. Tongaat Hulett Sugar that accounts for 30% of the sugar industries total annual production has also sold 25% of its shares to Black owner-growers. * tariff protection against disruptively low world sugar prices * provisions for the establishment of equitable export obligations for millers and growers alike * the maintenance of a managed, equitable special ... [highlighted result]
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2008/03/14
R Davies: Launch of Capital Projects Feasibility Programme
This brings us to an important second objective to which the Capital Projects Feasibility Programme could contribute: the advancement of the New Partnership for African Development (Nepad). For projects in Africa, government will advance 55 percent of the costs of a feasibility project within a range of R100 000 00 to R5 million and 50 percent of the cost of feasibility studies for projects outside the African continent. This facility is not limited to infrastructure projects but to a range ... [highlighted result]
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2008/01/30
R Davies: Ford Motor Company South Africa investment plan
This investment is strategically important both for South Africa and the Ford Motor Company. Let me take this opportunity to congratulate the Ford Motor Company for its decision to make this investment in South Africa, and in particular, in the cities of Tshwane and the Nelson Mandela Metropole. I wish the CEO of Ford Motor Company South Africa, Mr Hal Feder and Mr John Parker, Vice President, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, who made this investment decision possible, every success... [highlighted result]
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2007/08/30
R Davies: South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) Council Lekgotla
Issues of standards and technical regulations are fast becoming the major new challenge facing developing countries in international trade. The legislation will leave a reconstituted South African Bureau of Standards with responsibility for the development, promotion and maintenance of standards, as well as the provision of related conformity assessment services. This will impose on SABS the responsibility of ensuring co-ordination and maintaining high standards in a wider standards writing ... [highlighted result]
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2007/08/09
R Davies: National Women's Day celebrations during Women's Month
Together with women entrepreneurs through SAWEN, we have brought cohesiveness amongst women business structures where they speak in 'One Voice'. Realising that South African Business Women need to be part of the international business world, we have continued to expose our women to every international business opportunity we have come across. Ladies and gentlemen, realising that women's economic empowerment has not been fully achieved, the dti released a draft 2006 Strategic Framework on ... [highlighted result]
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2007/06/21
R Davies: Launch of fruit canning initiative
We battled hard in the negotiations for the Trade, Development and Co-operation Agreement with the European Union to avoid having canned fruit totally excluded from any tariff benefit arising from the trade component of that agreement. Another feature of the process which we began on the 15th August 2005 was the involvement in the exercise of self discovery of all key stakeholders, industry, supplier industries, labour, community and government, national, provincial and local. * marketing * ... [highlighted result]
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2007/05/30
R Davies: Trade and Industry Dept Budget Vote debate NCOP, 2007/08
The National Spatial Development Perspective (NSDP) identified various categories of development potential in the space economy of the country and laid the basis for determining guidelines and interventions appropriate to meeting the differing development needs of the various economic regions in South Africa. Following a proposal from the Southern African Development Community Negotiating Configuration, of which we are part, the review of the bilateral Trade Development and Co-operation ... [highlighted result]
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2007/05/29
R Davies: Trade and Industry Dept Budget Vote 2007/08
All of this has been distilled into an Industrial Policy Action Plan which will be included as an appendix and an integral component of the Industrial Policy Framework Document that will be launched shortly. As part of the process of gearing up for the implementation of industrial policy, Industrial Sector Divisions have migrated from our trade and investment promotion division, Trade and Investment South Africa (TISA), where they have been located for a number of years to a more appropriate ... [highlighted result]
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2007/03/29
R Davies: Swedish Awareness Event
Sweden is of course a member of the European Union (EU) and as such the basic trade framework between us is set by the Trade Development and Co-operation Agreement (TDCA) in force between South Africa and the European Union, but while the TDCA provides the basic framework, the kind of relationship which I think we need to aspire towards can perhaps be described as EU plus (+). Mr State Secretary, Ambassador, ladies and gentlemen, if we look at the gross trade statistics, we see a welcome and ... [highlighted result]
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