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Examining trade disputes in AfCFTA agreement: The need to engage private sector in Nigeria
2-Sep-2021 Vanguard News Nigeria
AfCFTA roundtable brought together business leaders, academia, government representatives, trade, and legal experts to discuss and deliberate on dispute issues in implementing the agreement in Nigeria.
A turning point for Dubai-Africa trade
2-Sep-2021 Forbes Africa
Dubai’s trade with Africa has grown by leaps and bounds over the last decade, thanks to several important developments that have established new business links between the emirate and promising markets across the continent.
What’s going on between African nations and the EU?
2-Sep-2021 Devex
African leaders still have incentives to maintain the partnership between the two continents, not least because of the trade links and development assistance Europe offers. But they also have a strong interest in revising that relationship.
Rich countries want to strike trade deals in Africa
28-Aug-2021 The Economist
There is a sense of drift in Africa’s trade relations with the West, as both America and Europe rethink how they do business with the continent. The old approach was paternalistic and gave Africans little say. But the new one, handled badly, could put Africa’s own integration at risk.
China Is the biggest winner from Africa’s new free trade bloc
28-Aug-2021 Foreign Policy
AfCFTA was supposed to usher in a new era of continental trade and economic growth—but Beijing’s not letting that happen.
African social movements demand that AU suspends undemocratic and pro-industry seed and GMO guidelines and processes
26-Aug-2021 ACBio
More than 50 African groups denounce how the African Union is using the African Continental Free Trade Area as a justification to push the seed harmonisation agenda.
A makeover for the India-Africa economic partnership
18-Aug-2021 The New Indian Express
The India-Africa partnership is set for a major makeover as both sides seek economic self-reliance to insulate their respective economies from external shocks.
AfCFTA rules of origin talks drag
15-Aug-2021 The Southern Times
The full rollout of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is being delayed as countries haggle over the overarching agreement on rules of origin and tariff reduction schedules.
Biden administration launches initiative to build US-Africa trade
3-Aug-2021 Voa
The administration of US President Joe Biden has kicked off the Prosper Africa Build Together initiative by requesting $80 million from Congress to build trade and investment between the US and Africa.
US trade chief plans summit to discuss Africa duty-free access
29-Jul-2021 Bloomberg
The US’s trade chief plans to convene a meeting with African ministers before the end of the year to strengthen partnerships and discuss a law that provides duty-free access to the U.S. for thousands of goods from sub-Saharan nations.
Kenya is gateway to African market: cabinet secretary
25-Jul-2021 The Korea Herald
Korean companies will archive market access through regional integration in Africa and East African region if Kenya is made base, according to Betty Maina, Kenya’s cabinet secretary for industrialization, trade and enterprise development.
Burundi has officially ratified the agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area
12-Jul-2021 Region Week
In a document that was made public this Tuesday, July 6, 2021, it was confirmed that Burundi officially ratified the agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area on June 17, 2021.
India is now Africa’s third largest trading partner
12-Jul-2021 RTV News
Indian companies are flourishing well in overseas. The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) provides a window to the Indian companies to tap a unified African market.
The free trade vision and its fallacies: the case of the African Continental Free Trade Area
23-Jun-2021 Modern Diplomacy
Some economists suggest that the liberalization of trade will result in an unequal distribution of losses and profit gains while economically dislocating a large number of workers in import-competing sectors.
India-African continental free trade area launched on the India-Africa trade Council Platform
18-Jun-2021 Devdiscourse
The AfCFTA (African Continental Free Trade Area) was launched in New Delhi at the Ghana Embassy with a lot of active commitment from Indian companies to enter Africa and take advantage of the AfCFTA.
AU Heads of State direct AfCFTA negotiations to be concluded by June
14-May-2021 Joy Online
This includes the protocols on rules of origin which seeks to deal with the issue of third party exports into the free zone area.
How trade deals explain the behaviour of West African elites
14-May-2021 The Conversation
The political survival of ruling elites is one of the major determining factors behind their trade policy choices.
Successor to EU-Africa Cotonou treaty marks ‘turning point’, says EU
22-Apr-2021 Euractiv
The EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific Community on Thursday (15 April) finalised the successor to the Cotonou agreement, bringing a close to two and a half years of negotiations and repeated delays.
Growing trade ties bind India to Africa’s future
14-Apr-2021 MENAFN
India has stepped up its global ambitions and foreign policy re-engagement with African countries in recent years. India is now the third largest export destination and the fifth largest investor on the continent.
Does new EU-ACP deal really ’decolonise’ aid?
9-Apr-2021 EU Observer
Based on what we have seen in nearly final drafts of the text, the EU seems poised to again fail to promote a real shift in power relations due to imbalances that remain written into the new deal.