Tag: African Union - tralac trade law centre

Does the African Continental Free Trade Area mean business?

12 Jul 19 Blog

When a large number of sovereign states launch an ambitious new free trade project and conclude binding treaties to signal their resolve, we should pay attention. If these are Afri...

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10 Jul 19 News

Underway, in New York: High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development Niamey Summit wrap, reactions Multi-video: Africa punches below its weight when it comes to inter...

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08 Jul 19 News

A comprehensive set of AfCFTA updates: The operational phase of the African Continental Free Trade Area was launched yesterday after a day-long summit of Heads of State and Govern...

Operational phase of the African Continental Free Trade Area launched at Niger Summit of the African Union

08 Jul 19 News

The operational phase of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) has been launched, after a day-long summit of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) in t...

Recipe for AfCFTA: New report looks at ‘what’s next’ for the Continental Agreement

08 Jul 19 News

The ninth edition of the flagship Assessing Regional Integration in Africa report (ARIA IX), titled ‘Next Steps for the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)’, ...

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05 Jul 19 News

Today’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 ...

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03 Jul 19 News

Diarise: Next year’s 2020 Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development will take place in Addis Ababa, 18-24 March, on the theme The future of Af...

Joint Statement of the Coordinators’ Meeting on the Implementation of the Follow-up Actions of the FOCAC Beijing Summit

28 Jun 19 News

To jointly advance the implementation of the follow-up actions of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Beijing Summit, Coordinators from the People’s Republic of ...

President Buhari accepts Report of the Committee to assess Impact and Readiness for the AfCFTA

28 Jun 19 News

Address by HE. Muhammadu Buhari, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, at the Formal Acceptance of the Report of the Committee to assess Impact and Readiness for the Africa...

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18 Jun 19 News

The US-Africa Business Summit 2019 starts today in Maputo. The event, a Corporate Council on Africa flagship conference, will be addressed by a large number of African Heads of Sta...

The African Continental Free Trade Agreement at core of deliberations in Nairobi

18 Jun 19 News

Enhancing Trade and Market Access for Accelerated Agriculture Transformation “It is difficult to form a compelling vision of prosperity without a role for trade. But for the mar...

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12 Jun 19 News

The highlight of the opening day of the AfDB’s Annual Meetings, yesterday in Malabo, was the release of one of its flagship reports, the African Economic Outlook. An easy guide t...

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11 Jun 19 News

The AfDB’s 2019 Annual Meetings opened today in Malabo on the theme Regional Integration for Africa’s Economic Prosperity. AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina said the bank had inv...

Ministers of trade deliberate on the operationalization of AfCFTA ahead of Niamey Summit

11 Jun 19 News

Africa has made commendable progress in securing deposits of instruments of ratification on the Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The Agreem...

South African government steps up the pace of African trade integration

06 Jun 19 News

In a step to boost the newly-approved African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), South Africa will be participating in a meeting of African Ministers of Trade in Ethiopia. ...

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03 Jun 19 News

Diarise: The Tripartite Sectoral Ministerial Committee (6 June, Addis Ababa) African Ministers of Trade (AMOT) meeting (7-8 June, Addis Ababa) Underway in Kigali: Af...

AfCFTA one year later: The road travelled and the road towards the launch of the Operational Phase

03 Jun 19 News

In this commemorative article, the African Union Commissioner for Trade and Industry outlines what has been achieved since the AfCFTA Agreement was opened for signature on 21st Mar...

The AfCFTA: What enters into force now and what does it mean?

17 May 19 Blog

On 29 April 2019, Sierra Leone and the Saharawi Republic deposited their instruments of ratification of the Agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)....

The proposed AfCFTA online non-tariff barrier reporting, monitoring and eliminating mechanism

17 May 19 Blog

How will it work? What are stakeholders expecting from this mechanism? The AFCFTA enters into force on 30th May 2019 with high expectations from the continental stakeholders parti...

Capacity Building Workshop on Stakeholder Engagement on African Trade Policies and ECOWAS Regional Trade Policy Dialogue Forum

15 May 19 Event

The African Union Commission (AUC), in partnership with the ECOWAS Commission and the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ), organized a Capacity Building Wor...