African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Negotiations
Overview of the AfCFTA Protocol on Trade in Goods in AfCFTA ECOWAS and AfCFTA Rules of Origin Role of the regional manufacturers Challenges and Recommendations
Information Brief on AfCFTA Third World Network-Africa 23rd September 2020
Outstanding work remains to be done within ECOWAS before AfCFTA can be operationalised, says Mr Tiemtore, Director of Customs, ECOWAS Commission Some three months to the official date of January 1, 2021, for the trading of goods under Africa’s...
Information Brief on AfCFTA Third World Network-Africa 15th July 2020
The main constraint to boosting intra-African trade is not tariff barriers per se but real productive constraints, says Ambassador Xavier Carim of South Africa. The main constraints to boosting intra-Africa within Africa’s Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is not...
Third World Network Africa Webinar Series – The AfCFTA in the context of COVID 19
Introduction: What has changed and what will happen next? First of all, the crisis reveals some truths It is obvious that nothing can ever be taken for granted and that humanity, despite its technical and technological progress, remains vulnerable...
Third World Network Africa Webinar Series – Global Developments, Africa Reponses and the AfCFTA
THE EVOLVING GLOBAL TRADE POLICY LANDSCAPE AND THE AfCFTA Crisis at the WTO is part of a wider crisis in multilateralism At WTO, the crisis is rooted in the policies embedded in the legal commitments in the agreements Contributed...