WTO obligations cut deeply into the regulatory autonomy of its members. A WTO member and developing country such as Botswana has to contend with this predicament of diminished trade policy space in crafting its national development policies and laws. Botswana's citizen economic empowerment...

Due to their level of development and challenges emerging out of that, developing countries (and least developed countries) occupy a very special position in the WTO multilateral system. The constitutive document of the WTO recognizes this and calls for positive measures to ensure access of...

Under the Marrakesh Agreement, WTO members have a legal obligation to ensure that their laws and regulations conform with the WTO obligations. Botswana's Control of Goods (Imports Permit) Regulations of 1973 sets out the legal requirements that an importer has to meet in order to qualify for an...