Economic Partnership Agreements From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For the free trade scheme between two countries, see Economic Partnership Agreement.Economic Partnership Agreement • May 14th, 2014
Contract Type FiledMay 14th, 2014Economic Partnership Agreements are a scheme to create a free trade area (FTA) between the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP). They are a response to continuing criticism that the non-reciprocal and discriminating preferential trade agreements offered by the EU are incompatible with WTO rules. The EPAs are a key element of the Cotonou Agreement, the latest agreement in the history of ACP-EU Development Cooperation and were supposed to take effect as of 2008, but as of March 2012 the negotiations are not yet completed.