Tag: AfCFTA

Makhtar Diop: SSATP’s new phase is ready to deliver (World Bank) For over 30 years, SSATP has been helping African countries build the underlying and enabling “invis...

South Africa’s six strategic objectives during its Chairship of the African Union: keynote address by President Ramaphosa (The Presidency) At the same time, we are presented wit...

10th meeting of African Ministers of Trade (14 December 2019, Accra): Declaration on WTO issues The following communication (dated 21 January 2020) is being circulated to del...

An online platform developed by UNCTAD and the African Union to help remove non-tariff barriers to trade in Africa became operational on 13 January. Traders and businesses moving ...

The African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) was signed by 44 AU member states in 2018 and came into force in May 2019 after being ratified by 22 member states – the req...

The services sector is key to economic development because it contributes a significant share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), employment and trade in a country’s economy, regard...

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) might not be designed to have one single “engine room,” but the scope of the underlying ambition seems to require one. The crea...

The objectives behind the AfCFTA are ambitious and wide-ranging. A careful reading of the texts of the founding instruments is necessary to understand the nature and sequencing of ...

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) has been designed as the answer to the low levels of intra-African trade.[1] It should boost intra-African trade by reducing the ta...

Key AfCFTA meetings begin on Monday in Accra, culminating in the African Trade Ministerial meeting this weekend (Ghana News Agency) Ghana, under the auspices of its Ministry of Tr...

Next week, in Addis: Committee on Private Sector Development, Regional Integration, Trade, Infrastructure, Industry and Technology. Extracts from featured submissions: Issues ...

Doing Business 2020: Selected African economy profiles Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, CAR, Cameroon, Comoros, Congo, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, ...

Starting tomorrow, in Pretoria: 15th Replenishment of the African Development Fund Representatives of donor governments will meet from 4-5 December in Centurion to conclude the 15...

The International Trade Centre has posted a major new report - Diversifying trade in Africa: New strategy approaches for the AfCFTA   This [AfCFTA] greement requires policyma...

Since the adoption by the African Union (AU) Assembly of the texts of the founding agreement of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and the Protocol on Trade in Goods,...

The AfCFTA has been designed to comply with the typical multilateral rules applicable to an FTA covering trade in goods and service. They include Article XXIV of the General Agreem...

It has been promised that continent-wide trade under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) will commence on 1 July 2020. This will require the completion of difficult ou...

Digitising logistics in Africa (Briter Bridges) Progressively more businesses operating in African markets are adopting digital solutions to monitor their supply chain or broaden ...