• With the application of trade instruments governed by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), as well as trade agreements more sustainable enterprises are developed over the longer term.
• Various trade instruments such as tariffs (import duties) and safeguards, anti-dumping duties and countervailing duties could be applied to support a trade solution application to secure a market. The area of non-tariff barriers poses additional hurdles to secure markets but could also be to the detriment of outbound trade opportunities.
• International Trade Matters to enhance trade such as FTA registration; Qualifying benefits under FTA arrangements; Preferred Trader and Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) Programme Registration.

• Sanitary and technical specifications analysis, including: Carrying out legal and economic analysis verifying the correctness of sanitary and technical specifications imposed in third countries and applying for the adoption of mandatory technical standards affecting the marketing of products and representing your company in anti-dumping, countervailing and safeguards investigations in third countries.
• Evaluating consistency of measures with international trade rules which include assessing compatibility of measures affecting the trading of products from or into South Africa with the rules of the WTO and other international trade agreements and liaising with governments with a view to raising possible trade-related concerns at WTO committees and the WTO Dispute Settlement Body.

Designation of South African products in Government procurement, including conducting economic and industry analyses regarding the feasibility of designating a product for purposes of governmental purchases and where products are already designated assist industry and government with the effective policing of this trade measure in order to ensure benefits are accrued to local manufacture.

• Assessing the state of industries by providing advice on the potential trade opportunities, actions to streamline economic performance and provide analytics to enable investigations into illicit trade.

• The Commodity Trade Observer (CTO) has unparalleled expertise in identifying the relevant trade instruments available to business to achieve optimum results. Our team has experience in dealing with the Department of Trade and Industry (the DTI), the International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC) and the South African Revenue Services (SARS).