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31-Oct-2023 The conversation
AGOA trade deal talks: South Africa will need to carefully manage relations with the US and China
South Africa must tread carefully in its economic relationships to avoid being caught in the escalating tension between east and west, and more specifically China and the US.
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16-Aug-2022 Carnegie Endowment
The New U.S. Africa Strategy Breaks From the Status Quo—With Some Perplexing Stumbles
U.S. positioning for the great power competition with China and Russia for influence in Africa.
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19-Feb-2024 Aljazeera
Can Africa’s new free trade treaty boost business on the continent?
African leaders will this weekend gather in Addis Ababa for the annual summit of the African Union (AU) to discuss key business issues, including plans to make Africa a global economic powerhouse.
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27-Jul-2023 Daily Maverick
Confidential document reveals SA fears that AGOA trade pact status is under threat
In a confidential discussion note seen by Daily Maverick, South Africa admits its status as a beneficiary of the African Growth and Opportunity Act is under threat.
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28-Aug-2021 Foreign Policy
China Is the biggest winner from Africa’s new free trade bloc
AfCFTA was supposed to usher in a new era of continental trade and economic growth—but Beijing’s not letting that happen.
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28-Mar-2014 Southern Times
Tripartite FTA: Answer to poor intra-African trade
African countries need to look at the possibility of fast-tracking the tripartite Free Trade Area if hopes of an improved intra-African trade are to be met anytime soon, according to the African Union Commission
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5-Dec-2021 African Business
Huge potential to boost Arab-Africa trade
Arab-African trade has enormous potential but is held back by a number of bottlenecks. The Second Arab-Africa Trade Forum in Cairo revealed new ways to take trade forward.
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26-Jan-2024 Modern Diplomacy
Three years after AfCFTA ratification: should Africans still rely on it?
The concept of African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) was formed during the 18th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Head of the States and Government of African Union (AU) in January 2012, on the theme “Boosting Intra-African trade”, which adopted the decision to establish a free trade area.
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11-Jan-2024 Business Insider Africa
Africa Collective in partnership with the AfCFTA secretariat to convene key African & global decision makers in Davos during annual luncheon
Following a successful inaugural Luncheon in 2023, Africa Collective in partnership with the AfCFTA Secretariat will once again be organizing its annual Closing & Outlook Luncheon in Davos on 18 January 2024 from 12:30 noon to 2:30 pm, during the time of the World Economic Forum.
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13-Jan-2020 Maghreb Online
L’œuvre négative du néocolonialisme français et européen en Afrique. Les Accords de Partenariat Économique (APE) : De la Françafrique à l’Eurafrique
Les objectifs de libéralisation du commerce ont pris explicitement le pas sur ceux concernant le « développement » ou l’amélioration des conditions d’existence des populations.
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6-Aug-2018 Investig’action
L’œuvre négative du néocolonialisme français et européen en Afrique. Les Accords de Partenariat Economique Franc (APE) : De la Françafrique à l’Eurafrique
On ne parle plus que des APE et de moins en moins du dispositif de Cotonou, signifiant que les objectifs de libéralisation du commerce ont pris explicitement le pas sur ceux concernant le « développement » ou l’amélioration des conditions d’existence des populations.
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6-Feb-2013 The Africa Report
The future of AGOA and US-Africa trade
At a time when the US was struggling to stay on its two feet in the heat of a looming economic meltdown in 2008, were hopes of better trade deals with Africa unrealistic when President Barack Obama was elected into office?
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13-Oct-2006
Overview of bilateral free trade and investment agreements
A general overview of free trade agreements and bilateral investment treaties that have been signed or are being negotiated all over the world. Organised by region, it provides a snapshot of the many processes currently under way, some of the controversies they raise and opposition movements against these agreements.
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2-Nov-2021 IPS
Africa’s economic trade-off
Africa’s new free trade area could transform the continent’s economy. But without strong social protections, it may result in more precarious work.
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16-May-2008 New Era
EC’s non-coherent EPA policy on Africa
The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) agenda of the European Commission (EC) clearly illustrates the masquerade of its disdainful approach towards Africa in an accelerated disregard for the EU’s coherence policy.
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5-May-2020 United World International
African Continental Free Trade Area: hope or neo-colonialism?
The AfCFTA is an opportunity for countries and companies to help each other grow, but trade liberalization and Western control can harm the poor and local producers in these countries, and Africa will repeat the mistakes of the European Union.
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7-Jan-2019 Monde Diplomatique
Why free trade will be a disaster for Africa
African countries, backed by the EU, want internal and external free trade, which will wreck local agriculture, and rural economies and societies.
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22-Jun-2023 Lexology
Africa: The African Growth and Opportunity Act nears its deadline
The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which allows duty- and quota-free exports from eligible African countries into the United States, is due to expire in 2025.
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23-Oct-2017 Politics Web
South Africa: How safe for investment?
The Protection of Investment Act affords foreign investors no protections beyond domestic law, and pointedly disavows investor-state international arbitration. The SADC Protocol was also amended by the SADC Summit of heads of state and government.
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20-Sep-2015 Mining Weekly
Mooted free-trade area seen boosting intra-African minerals trade flows
Formal negotiations are taking place among the 54 member States of the African Union to create a free-trade zone on the continent by 2017.