Did you say free trade?
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L’Harmattan | 21 octobre 2018
Did you say free trade?
Jacques Berthelot, prefaces of Mamadou Cissokho and Ken Ukaoha - Translated by Jean Lucien Dibombe Tshamulamba
The headlong rush of the European Union (EU) in Free Trade Agreements reaches the paroxysm of absurdity when it imposes them on West Africa, whose per capita GDP is 21 times lower than its own. This Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) would make West Africa lose 76% of its customs revenue on its imports from the EU and lead to a sharp rise in unemployment due to the loss of competitiveness of its companies including the informal sectors.The latter will be worsened by the premature signing, with support from the EU, of the Continental Free Trade Area by 13 of 16 West African States, all this based on a number of untruths from the European Commission, as identified in this book.
