Tag: AfCFTA
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02 May 19 NewsDiarise: Horn of Africa AfCFTA Regional Trade Forum (23-24 May, Addis Ababa)
Extract from the concept note: While engagement with the private sector is a theme that cuts acro...
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30 Apr 19 NewsAfCFTA ratification update
The AfCFTA Agreement will enter into force on 30 May: update from AUC
The Chairperson of the AU Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, flanked by the AU Comm...
Ratification of the AfCFTA Agreement: What happens next?
30 Apr 19 PublicationsIn January 2012, the African Union (AU) decided to establish a Continental Free Trade Area “to create a single continental market for goods and services, with free movement of bu...
AfCFTA Agreement secures minimum threshold of 22 ratifications for entry into force
29 Apr 19 NewsThe Chairperson of the AU Commission, H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat, flanked by the AU Commissioner for Trade and Industry, His Excellency Albert Muchanga, received two (2) deposit...
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29 Apr 19 NewsDITE for Africa: Introducing the AU’s Digital Identity, Digital Trade and Digital Economy initiative. Download the concept note
AfCFTA updates:
This week in Arusha, Tanzani...
Seychelles continues to evaluate Africa free trade pact now coming into force
29 Apr 19 NewsSeychelles will continue discussions and negotiations before signing on to the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), a deal that could open the door to more trade to and fr...
The AfCFTA as a Strategy and a Design
26 Apr 19 PublicationsRegional trade agreements (RTAs) are increasing in number and exist alongside the multilateral dispensation of the World Trade Organisation. They are likely to shape trade and...
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25 Apr 19 NewsAfrican trade policy events taking place today:
In Maseru: SACU Council of Ministers meeting
In Arusha: EABC-UNECA workshop on the role of the private sector in the AfCFTA
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24 Apr 19 NewsOn hosting the AfCFTA Secretariat: Eswatini walking tightrope to become Africa’s trade hub (Yenisfak)
At a breakfast meeting with the local business community, prime minister Am...
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23 Apr 19 NewsThe 8th Annual Borderless 2019 Conference starts tomorrow in Accra. The theme: Trade facilitation intra-regional in West Africa – new trends
Inclusive trade in Africa: The Afric...
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18 Apr 19 NewsAfCFTA ratification update: Cameroon assures ECA that it will ratify Africa’s Free Trade Area Agreement
“Cameroon will ratify the AfCFTA,” the country’s Prime Minister, Jo...
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17 Apr 19 NewsPosted, by the AU: The decisions, declarations, resolution and motions from the 32nd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Union (February, Addis Ababa). Decisions include: ...
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16 Apr 19 NewsAfCFTA update: The Gambia, today, deposited its instruments of ratification for the AfCFTA with the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, becoming the 20th country to do so....
African Consultative Group Meeting: Statement by the Chairman of the African Caucus and the Managing Director of the IMF
15 Apr 19 NewsMinister Kenneth Ofori-Atta, Chairman of the African Caucus, and Ms. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), co-chaired the African Consultat...
Sub-Saharan Africa: IMF lays out policies for economic recovery amid elevated uncertainty
15 Apr 19 NewsNavigating Sub-Saharan Africa’s Recovery Amid Greater Uncertainty
Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic recovery is set to continue, but along two tracks. Overall growth is set to pic...
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11 Apr 19 NewsApplications for UNCTAD’s online course on Trade and Gender for COMESA (pdf) close on 28 April. The course will be held from 20 May to 14 July.
Today, in Cairo: The road to Niam...
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09 Apr 19 NewsFeatured tweet, @EgyptAbaba: Few minutes ago, I officially deposited Egypt AfCFTA ratification instrument. Egypt is 18th depositor of the free trade area and four more to go to ent...
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08 Apr 19 NewsThe World Bank-IMF 2019 Spring Meetings open today in Washington
UNCTAD’s Ad Hoc Expert Group Meeting on Competition Law and Policy takes place today in Geneva
UNCTAD’s eComm...
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05 Apr 19 Newstralac’s March 2019 newsletter is posted: the newsletter carries a comprehensive report of debates at tralac’s annual conference, convened recently in Nairobi
Diarise: The Afr...
Fresh push for states to ratify the Tripartite FTA as deadline draws near
05 Apr 19 NewsThe deadline set by the Tripartite Council of Ministers for member States of three regional economic blocs to sign and ratify the tripartite free trade area lapses this month....