AfCFTA
African Continental Free Trade Area
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4-Sep-2019 Le Quotidien du Peuple
La Zone tripartite de libre-échange africaine sera opérationnelle en début 2020, selon le COMESA
Le TFTA servira également de bloc de construction pour la Zone de libre-échange continentale africaine, a rapporté un responsable du Marché commun de l’Afrique orientale et australe (COMESA).
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4-Sep-2019 Xinhua
Africa’s tripartite free trade area to be operational in early 2020: COMESA
The TFTA will also be a building bloc for the African Continental Free Trade Area, COMESA official said.
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29-Aug-2019 South Centre
‘Phase 1B’ of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) negotiations
This policy brief focuses on the expected economic impacts of tariff liberalization under the AfCFTA.
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28-Aug-2019 Mining Review
What the AfCFTA means for the energy sector
Major new opportunities for cross-border energy collaboration arise from the signature of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement.
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26-Aug-2019 BusinessLine
India, Mauritius close to sewing up FTA
India and Mauritius are close to finalising the proposed bilateral free trade agreement that got delayed due to apprehensions amongst domestic players in both countries.
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21-Aug-2019 The Jakarta Post
Setting sights on ‘free trade’ Africa
Indonesia has caught the African fever, but with AfCFTA, it can do a lot more and faster in tapping the growing economic and business opportunities on offer
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20-Aug-2019 Xinhua
L’Afrique du Sud se prépare à mettre en œuvre la Zone de libre-échange continentale africaine
Le gouvernement sud-africain a mis en place lundi un comité chargé d’élaborer des plans d’action relatifs à la Zone de libre-échange continentale africaine (ZLECA).
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16-Aug-2019 Mondaq
African states launch the operational phase of the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement, creating one of the largest common markets in the world
The AfCFTA entered into force on May 30, 2019 for all States that have ratified the Agreement. Trading under the agreement will begin on July 1, 2020.
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7-Aug-2019 Yahoo
África quiere un acuerdo comercial con EEUU; EEUU quiere muchos
Estados Unidos y África tienen puntos de vista distintos sobre su futura relación comercial después de que venza un acuerdo de acceso preferencial en 2025.
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7-Aug-2019 Bloomberg
Africa wants one trade deal with the US, the US wants many
The African Union prefers a continent-wide deal with the US while the US wants bilateral deals when AGOA expires.
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5-Aug-2019 La Tercera
África: la última frontera en TLC para Chile
Chile tiene TLC con las Américas, gran parte de Europa, Asia y Oceanía, por lo cual África es nuestra última frontera, existiendo a partir del AfCFTA una oportunidad que no podemos dejar pasar.
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29-Jul-2019 Bloomberg
Nigeria sets up committee to implement African free-trade deal
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the establishment of a committee to implement the country’s participation in the African Free Trade Agreement.
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15-Jul-2019 VOA
Central Africans express mixed reactions to continental free trade area
Analysts and businesspeople in the six-member Central African Economic and Monetary Community say that although the African Continental Free Trade Area brings hope for pan African trade, they are not sure CEMAC will be fully implemented anytime soon.
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12-Jul-2019 DW
Les habitants de N’Djamena ne croient pas à la Zlec
Malgré l’entrée en vigueur de l’accord sur la zone de libre échange économique, les commerçants tchadiens sont toujours victimes de tracasseries et d’humiliations à la frontière avec le Cameroun.
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11-Jul-2019 The New Times
Rwanda ratifies Tripartite Free Trade Area agreement
Members of the Lower House approved the agreement establishing a Tripartite Free Trade Area among the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, the East African Community, and the Southern African Development Community.
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11-Jul-2019 VOA
Why Nigerian small manufacturers fear new continental trade deal
Some manufacturers in Nigeria say that wading into the continental market could undermine local players and have negative implications.
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11-Jul-2019 Telquel
Une zone de libre-échange africaine, pour quoi faire ?
Les détracteurs craignent que la ZLEC expose les pays faiblement industrialisés à un afflux de biens à bas coût, créant une situation de concurrence impossible à soutenir pour les petits producteurs et industriels locaux.
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8-Jul-2019 SOL
Réunion du dialogue de la société civile sur l’Afrique du 28 juin 2019
La préparation de la ZLECAf représente une perte de temps et de ressources pour les Etats africains qui réduira les ressources qui devraient être concentrées sur le renforcement économique et politique des Communautés économiques régionales
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8-Jul-2019 SOL
Civil society dialogue on Africa’s meeting of 28 June 2019
The preparation of the AfCFTA represents a waste of time and resources for the African States that will reduce the resources which should be concentrated on economic and political strengthening of the Regional Economic Communities.
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8-Jul-2019 Al Jazeera
Economic ’game changer’? African leaders launch free-trade zone
African leaders launched a continental free-trade zone that, if successful, would unite 1.3 billion people and create a $3.4 trillion economic bloc.
