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New trade agreement allows Solomon Islands to export duty-free tuna to EU
23-Mar-2020 Solomon Times
The EU has decided to include the Solomon Islands in its trade agreement with the Pacific states, which will allow tuna caught there to be exported to EU markets without duties.
New EU negotiating mandate for trade agreements with ACP countries turns EPAs into CETAs
7-Feb-2020 bilaterals.org
The new mandate is much more far-reaching than the 2002 version as it incorporates everything that the EU has been pushing in its FTAs since CETA including ISDS, digital trade, far reaching IPR.
EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements: Directives for the negotiations (Dec 2019)
7-Feb-2020
Namibia to launch EPA implementation plan
4-Feb-2020 The Namibian
Namibia is committed to implementing the European Union’s Economic Partnership Agreement, and to launch the plan this year, National Assembly speaker revealed.
SA’s trades with the UK continues unchanged as the UK leaves the EU
3-Feb-2020 Business Report
The SACUM-UK EPA effectively retains the terms of trade present in the existing SADC-EU EPA.
EU and five Eastern and Southern African countries kick off negotiations to deepen trade relations
20-Jan-2020 EIN
The EU concluded the first round of negotiations to deepen the existing Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with five Eastern and Southern Africa partners.
Seychelles hosts meeting with EU, African states on economic partnership
16-Jan-2020 Seychelles News Agency
Seychelles is for the first time hosting negotiations between the European Union and the Eastern Southern African States that are focusing on the implementation of an interim economic partnership.
European Union to give Seychelles 10 million euros to support economic partnership agreement
5-Dec-2019 Seychelles News Agency
The objectives of the agreement are to improve Seychelles’ capacity to manage and implement the current EPA.
Africa relations are ‘not equal’, leaders warn EU
4-Dec-2019 Euractiv
African political and business leaders complained that trade deals are skewed in favour of Europe, preventing them from building up domestic processing industries.
Interview with Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG)
14-Nov-2019 bilaterals.org
In this interview, we discuss the PACER+ trade deal, the post Cotonou talks with the EU and the influence of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in the Pacific region.
Africa offers a test to von der Leyen’s ‘geopolitical Commission’
7-Nov-2019 Euractiv
The African Union Commission’s high representative on Cotonou has warned that keeping the ACP framework will make it harder for the EU to agree on a ‘continent-to-continent instrument’.
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.
SACU, Mozambique and UK sign EPA agreement
14-Oct-2019 Namibia Economist
The Trade Ministers from the SACU Member States, Mozambique and the United Kingdom signed the economic partnership agreement.
The EU and Solomon islands step up cooperation
8-Oct-2019 Solomon Times
EU official welcomed Solomon Islands’ interest in joining the existing Economic Partnership Agreement.
EU launches talks on new African trade pact
3-Oct-2019 Euractiv
The new agreement will hopefully cover ‘trade-related areas, such as services, investment, technical barriers to trade, intellectual property rights as well as trade and sustainable development,’ says EU Commission.
ACP-EU partnership: economic priorities determined
1-Oct-2019 Government Europa
Negotiators from the EU and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of countries met at the United Nations to determine the future of the ACP-EU partnership.
Pres. Weah signs several acts into law
20-Sep-2019 Liberian Observer
The President signed the act ratifying the Economic Partnership Agreement between West African States, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the European Union and its members.
EAC keeps Europe guessing two months to crucial meeting
16-Sep-2019 The East African
Two months to the East African Community’s Summit, partner states are keeping the European Union guessing over the controversial Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) whose signing stalled in 2016.
UK, Sacu strike post Brexit trade deal
12-Sep-2019 The Namibian
The UK has initiated an economic partnership agreement with the Southern African Customs Union and Mozambique (Sacu+M) that will allow business to keep trading freely after Brexit.
Trade impasse as EU seeks deal with entire EAC bloc
15-Jul-2019 The East African
The EAC negotiated and concluded a bilateral trade agreement with the EU as a bloc, and it must remain as such, say sources at the European Commission.