Tag: RECs
President Cyril Ramaphosa hosts virtual meeting with AU Regional Economic Communities Chairs: Communiqué
29 Apr 20 NewsCommuniqué
His Excellency, President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa of the Republic of South Africa, and Chairperson of the African Union (AU), convened a teleconference Meeting of th...
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29 Apr 20 NewsThe Intra-Africa Trade Fair, scheduled to take place in Kigali in September this year, has been postponed to September 2021
President Ramaphosa, as Chair of the African Union, con...
Comparing the Trading Environment for Enterprises in Africa’s RECs: Lessons from Firm-Level Data
30 Mar 20 PublicationsThis Trade Brief investigates the ease of trade for small, medium and large-sized enterprises across the countries and regional economic communities (RECs) of Africa. The percentag...
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20 Mar 20 NewsWTO cancels its ministerial conference: now what? (Borderlex EU)
The organisation may still hold a special ‘General Council’ meeting in Geneva in lieu of the ministerial, but ...
2019 African Regional Integration Report: Voices of the RECs
03 Mar 20 NewsTowards an integrated and prosperous and peaceful Africa
This report first presents the historical context of the African integration process and the progress of African leaders t...
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03 Mar 20 News@AUTradeIndustry: update on the AfCFTA negotiations
The 8th meeting of the AfCFTA Technical Working Group on Trade in Services began today in Addis. It is an opportunity for AU me...
African Union Agenda 2063
19 Dec 19 ResourcePatterns of Comparative Advantage in Africa: Assessing Similarities and Differences
15 Nov 19 PublicationsThis trade brief applies several unsupervised statistical learning methodologies to determine the extent to which the nations of Africa converge (or diverge) in terms of their expo...
The Institutional Implications of Article 19 of the AfCFTA – where do the Regional Economic Communities fit in?
13 Sep 19 BlogArticle 19(2) of the AfCFTA Agreement provides that “State Parties that are members of other regional economic communities, regional trading arrangements and custom unions, which...
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05 Jul 19 NewsToday’s featured commentary, David Pilling (Financial Times Africa Editor): Are tech companies Africa’s new colonialists?
Ghana appears to have won the bid to host the AfCFTA ...
Rules of Origin key to success of African Continental Free Trade Area
27 Jun 19 NewsRules of origin should be made simple and business friendly for the gains expected from the AfCFTA to be realized.
Rules of origin – the criteria needed to determine the nationa...
What happens to the RECs once the AfCFTA is in force?
17 May 19 BlogRegional integration has been a prominent feature of inter-state cooperation in Africa for a long time. It is pursued for solidarity, historical, political and economic reasons. In...
Tariffs on intra-Africa trade
21 Mar 19 InfographicsAn overview of tariff measures adopted by African countries on intra-Africa trade
Many African countries trade under preferential trading arrangements of their regional economic c...
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08 Feb 19 Newstralac’s Gerhard Erasmus on the AfCFTA’s institutions: Could the Secretariat hold the key to implementation?
This working paper discusses what institutions the AfCFTA will hav...
Africa making encouraging progress in the ratification of the African Continental Free Trade Area, says AUC Chairperson
08 Feb 19 NewsChairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat, has described the progress made in the ratification of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)...
Mission to unlock Africa’s services sector
04 Feb 19 NewsAfrican countries must level up on their ability to measure services trade and use services to grow their economies and value chains.
“Services offer African countries an import...
Communications crucial for successful implementation of AfCFTA
16 Jan 19 NewsCommunications must play a crucial role in building awareness on the gender implications of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement and the accord as a whole, pa...
African Economic Conference 2018 focuses on Africa Visa Openness and integration
03 Dec 18 NewsFor millions of ordinary travellers, inter-African travel is still too often a nightmare. Be it border hassles, lack of road or air routes linking key cities, or the frustrations o...
African Responses to Global Crises
18 Nov 18 BlogHow do African governments and Africa collectively respond to the crisis in the global trading system? Are joint policies being developed? By whom? How will such a process be coord...
WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement: An African perspective
18 Nov 18 BlogTrade facilitation discussions at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) began in December 1996, at the Singapore Ministerial Conference, when the member states instructed the WTO Coun...