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Economic Community Of West African States

Private sector firms join push for AfCFTA agenda
24-Feb-2021 The East African
Private sector lobbies in Africa’s six regional trading blocs have formed the African Business Council, a continental umbrella body to spearhead the business agenda for the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
AfCTA threatening intra ECOWAS trade
13-Aug-2020 Goldstreet Business
The impending commencement of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCTA) will remove the advantage of intra-ECOWAS trade.
ECOWAS holds Regional Meeting on AfCFTA for ECOWAS Institutions and Specialised Agencies
23-Jul-2020 Journal du Cameroun
The Economic Community of West African States held a virtual meeting on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) for ECOWAS Institutions and Specialised Agencies on the 21st of July 2020.The AfCFTA seeks to create a single continental market for goods and services, with free movement of business persons and investments, in order to engender the acceleration and establishment of a continental Customs Union.
The European Commission’s manipulations of the interim Economic Partnership Agreements of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana
3-Apr-2020 SOL
This analysis aims to uncover the many tricks used by the European Commission to impose the Interim Economic Partnership Agreements of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana.
MAN kicks as Nigeria’s priority products are omitted from AfCFTA’s sensitive, exclusive lists
26-Feb-2020 The Guardian (Nigeria)
Despite being a major market in West Africa, Nigerian manufacturers have kicked against the exclusion of Nigeria’s priority products from the sensitive and exclusive lists of the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement.
Pakistan aims to double trade with Africa in five years
31-Jan-2020 The News
Pakistan is already in touch SACU, ECOWAS and EAC to negotiate trade agreements and also plans to take advantage of the opportunities that exists under the African Continental Free Trade Agreement.
Mauritania to apply free trade deal with ECOWAS
29-Jan-2020 Journal du Cameroun
Mauritania will soon implement the free trade agreement with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), President El Ghazouani has said.
Pres. Weah signs 15 bills into law
21-Oct-2019 Liberian Observer
The 15 bills include the act to ratify the Bilateral Investment Treaty with the United Arab Emirates, the investment agreement with Morocco and the ECOWAS custom code.
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.
EU grants Ghana €40 million under Economic Partnership Agreement
4-Mar-2019 Business Ghana
This is the last tranche of the €323 million the EU offered Ghana under the Economic Partnership Agreement.
Did you say free trade?
2-Nov-2018 L’Harmattan
Latest book by economist Jacques Berthelot insists that West Africa will lose out if it signs the economic ’partnership’ agreement with the European Union.
Mauritania signs deal to pave way for EU-West African economic partnership
24-Sep-2018 Asharq Al-Awsat
Mauritania on Friday became the 15th West African country to sign the region-to-region Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union.
The Gambia signs the region-to-region Economic Partnership Agreement between West Africa and the EU
13-Aug-2018 European Commission
The Gambia became the 14th West African country to have signed the region-to-region Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the EU.
The EU caught in the trap of Nigeria’s refusal to sign the West Africa Economic Partnership Agreement and the Continental Free Trade Area
7-May-2018 SOL
President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria very explicitly stated to the new Ambassador of the European Union that Nigeria was determined not to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement for West Africa.
Nigeria may lose over 60% port revenue to AfCFTA, common ECOWAS tariff
13-Apr-2018 This Day
The implementation of common ECOWAS tariff will make Nigeria lose businesses because it means that once a tariff is paid in one country, no other tariff will be paid in any other country in West Africa.
Why Nigeria didn’t sign Economic Partnership Agreement –Buhari
6-Apr-2018 Punch
The President said he had been reluctant to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement among ECOWAS countries because of the need to protect the economy, especially the industries and small businesses that currently provide jobs for majority of Nigerians.
Interview with Ndongo Samba Sylla
4-Apr-2018 bilaterals.org
Dr Ndongo Samba Sylla is an economist, researcher and programme officer at the Office for West Africa at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. In this interview, he analyses the African Continental Free Trade Area
MAN cautions FG on free trade agreements
14-Mar-2018 Vanguard
The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria urges the Nigerian government not succumb to the pressure by the European Union to sign the EU-ECOWAS Economic Partnership Agreement as well as the African Continental Free Trade Area.
Turkey seeks free trade agreement with ECOWAS
6-Mar-2018 Leadership
Turkish Economy Minister has suggested that a free trade agreement will be a key step to boost business ties between Ankara and the Economic Community of West African States.
The urgent clarification of import duties applied in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana related to their interim EPAs
19-Dec-2017 SOL
What will happen if the regional EPA of West Africa is never finalized?