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
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...
Beyond the Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat, What Next for Ghana?
Ghana won the bid to host the Secretariat of Africa’s Continental Free Trade (AfCFTA) on the 7th of July 2019 in Niamey, Niger, during the 12th Extra-Ordinary Summit of the African Union Heads of State and Government. Great commendation...
THIRD WORLD NETWORK-AFRICA BRIEFING NOTE ON EPAs & AfCFTA JUNE 2019 No. II
Title: Implications of Commitments in Non-Tariffs Measures under EPAs and AfCFTA: A focus on the Agro-Food Sector in Southern Africa Introduction Given the divergent tariff liberalisation commitments contained in the various sub-Saharan African EPAs will have implications for the...