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FTA, Customs Union SADC priorities - Salomao
17-Aug-2010
Consolidation of the Free Trade Area and preparations towards a Customs Union remain SADC’s priorities in order to deepen regional integration, SADC Executive Secretary Dr Tomaz Salomao said in remarks at the 30th anniversary jubilee summit of Heads of State and Government, in Windhoek, Namibia yesterday.
Full FTA on the horizon
12-Aug-2010
Even though the implementation of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) free trade area is yet to take place, there are notable areas of progress indicating that the activation of the free trade area is not far off.
EAC-Turkey free trade zone talks next month
11-Aug-2010
Turkey and the East African Community will start negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement and a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement next month, the East African Business Council has announced.
Economic Council for Establishing Free Trade Zone between Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan
11-Aug-2010
Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan announced the establishment of an economic council to follow up on creating a free trade zone among these countries.
Regional integration to top SADC talks
11-Aug-2010
Regional integration will be the major topic when the Southern African Development Community (SADC) heads of state summit that will coincide with the SADC 30th anniversary celebrations gets underway in Namibia on August 16-17.
Global economies rush to strengthen ties in EAC market
11-Aug-2010 Business Daily
The scramble for trade and investment pacts under the newly formed East African Community common market has heightened with leading global economies rushing to establish diplomatic footholds in the regional secretariat.
Come on board FTA, Salomao urges states
10-Aug-2010
Executive Secretary of the Southern African Development Community, Dr Tomaz Salomao, has urged SADC member states who are still to join the Free Trade Area to come on board.
East Africans celebrate the common market
2-Jul-2010
We welcome the East African Common Market. Granted, what is being celebrated today has not come with all the freedoms associated with such an entity.
Arab Maghreb Union to accelerate setting up of free-trade area
10-Jun-2010
The ninth session of trade ministers from the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) ended on Monday in Tripoli with the reaffirmation to accelerate the setting up of a free-trade area within member countries of the organization.
Swaziland: Not much benefit in preferential trade agreement
29-Apr-2010 IRIN
A decade after the African Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA), a preferential US trade agreement, became law on 18 May 2000, there are questions over the benefits, if any, derived from the initiative.

    Links

  • African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) legal texts and policy documents
    Tralac’s page on the African Continental Free Trade Area
  • SEATINI Uganda
    The Southern and Eastern Africa Trade Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI) is a regional non-governmental organization founded in 1996 soon after the WTO Singapore Ministerial Conference — mainly focusing on WTO, but also bilateral and regional trade negotiations in Africa.
  • SEATINI Zimbabwe
    The Southern and Eastern African Trade Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI) is an African initiative to strengthen Africa’s capacity to take a more effective part in the emerging global trading system and to better manage the process of globalization.