Information Brief on the AfCFTA
July 2020 deadline for Operationalisation of AfCFTA looms as Tariff offers, Rules of Origin and Specific commitment on Trade in Services Remain contested
THE AFRICAN CONTINENTAL FREE TRADE AREA, BREXIT AND EPA IMPLEMENTATION
Opportunities and Challenges Arising from the Brexit Process for Revising Economic Partnership Agreements with the EU in the Agro-Food Sector
AfCFTA Phase 1 Negotiations: Issues and Challenges for Eastern Africa
This study identifies issues and challenges of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), with a focus on East Africa. Which countries belong to ‘East’ Africa? The African Union definition encompass-es the following 14 countries, which could be subdivided:
West Africa trembling before terror
Is West Africa ready to contain terror from the fringes of the Sahel, as it threatens to gradually, descend on the whole region, asks *Cornelius Adedze.
What products will Africa trade in under the Continental Free Trade Area?
Africa’s Continental Free Trade Area, provides a market of 1.3 billion people, likely to create a $3.4 trillion economic bloc but what exactly will Africans be trading in, asks *Sylvester Bagooro. What products would pass as African products (rules...
