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Cameroon ratifies Samoa agreement to extend EU-ACP trade pact
13-Jun-2025 Business in Cameroon
On June 11, Cameroon officially deposited its instruments of ratification for the Samoa Agreement at the EU headquarters in Brussels. This new partnership agreement between the EU and the countries of Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific is set to replace the 2000 Cotonou Agreement, which established the framework for the Economic Partnership Agreements.
Five years later, is the AfCFTA already failing? Business Africa
10-Feb-2025 MSN
Although some trade has taken place under this framework—such as exports from Ghanaian and South African companies in 2023—these transactions remain marginal.
Cameroon-EU EPA Awards: Large companies swoop prizes, confirms customs figures
17-Sep-2023 Business in Cameroon
On June 8, 2023, the European Union’s Commission announced the Cameroon-EU EPA Awards, a contest organized “to honor those who have taken up the challenge and are now benefiting from the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA)”
Cameroon: Large firms captured 86% of EPA tax gains in 5 years
17-Sep-2023 Business in Cameroon
The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between Cameroon and the European Union benefited large enterprises the most, according to customs authorities. Those enterprises are mostly multinationals operating in the brewing, cement, chemical, and agribusiness industries.
Ghana, six others begin trade under AfCFTA
30-Nov-2022 Modern Ghana
Ghana and six other countries have started trading goods and services under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
AfCFTA: 8 countries including Ghana to commence trading - Deputy Trade Minister
23-Aug-2022 Ghana Web
“Actual trading is starting between Cameroon, Egypt, Kenya, Mauritius, Rwanda, Tanzania, Tunisia and Ghana. In the coming weeks, the dream of our forebears will be off the ground, and historic as the moment may be.”
AfCFTA secretariat commences pilot trading with seven countries
1-Aug-2022 Guardian
Seven countries, including Rwanda, Cameroun, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius and Tanzania have been selected among countries to start trading under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) framework in a pilot phase.
Cameroon-India growing: trade development cooperation celebration
5-Nov-2021 All Africa
Cooperation ties between Cameroon and India have witnessed a great bolster within the past two years.
Xiplomacy: Xi-proposed "eight major initiatives" facilitate China-Africa trade
1-Oct-2021 Xinhua Net
At the opening ceremony of the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation held in September 2018, Chinese President proposed that China would launch eight major initiatives in close collaboration with African countries.
Cameroonian deputies oppose signing the agreement
1-Apr-2021 Swords Today
Some deputies did not approve the signing of the bilateral agreement between Cameroon and the UK.
UK and Cameroon sign trade agreement
12-Mar-2021 UK Government
The United Kingdom has signed an Economic Partnership Agreement with Cameroon.
UK and Cameroon secure economic partnership agreement
5-Jan-2021 Business Leader
The United Kingdom and Cameroon have today secured an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) that ensures mutual continuity of trade.
EPA: Cameroon set on suspending tariff dismantling till the end of 2020 despite the EU’s protests
12-Nov-2020 Business in Cameroon
Despite the European Union’s (EU) protests, Cameroon will maintain the suspension of tariff dismantling planned by the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) that binds it to EU countries.
France: First supplier of imported products under Cameroon’s economic partnership with the EU
18-Oct-2019 Business in Cameroon
France is the first of four main suppliers for products imported to Cameroon under the economic partnership agreement with the European Union.
UK negotiates a post-Brexit EPA with Cameroon
14-May-2019 Business in Cameroon
The validation of a report on the trade impact of the bilateral Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between Cameroon and the United Kingdom is the first step before the actual start of negotiations.
Chicken woman has a lesson on fowl play for SA
16-Aug-2018 IOL
The EU threatens now and again to force Cameroon to open its markets, given its status as a signatory to the Economic Partnership Agreement.
Mise à niveau : Un rempart contre la disparition des entreprises locales
9-Feb-2018 Chateau News
Depuis la ratification par le Cameroun, le 22 juillet 2014 de l’accord de partenariat économique avec l’Union Européenne les petites et moyennes entreprises camerounaises sont menacées par le spectre de déflagration.
Cameroon: Economic partnership agreement with EU reduces customs revenue
23-Jun-2017 Cameroon Concord
Though government overlooks at the 600 million lose, economists say it is not healthy for the country’s economy which is dangling at the moment and hope to emerge by 2035.
Interview with Yvonne Takang
16-Jun-2017 bilaterals.org
Yvonne Takang has been campaigning and lobbying against Economic Partnership Agreements in Cameroon at the Association Citoyenne de Défense des Intérêts Collectifs
Cameroon goes it alone with controversial EU trade deal, angers regional partners
27-Sep-2016 African Arguments
Many in Cameroon and the wider region worry that the unilateral signing of an Economic Partnership Agreement was a bad decision.