Economic Partnership Agreements (Epas) Sample Contracts
Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) NEW ACP-EU TRADE PARTNERSHIPSEconomic Partnership Agreements (Epas) • January 14th, 2011
The EU is the main trading partner for most African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. Trade arrangements between the ACP and the EU were set out until the end of 2007 in the ACP-EU Cotonou Agreement and its predecessors and had tried but failed to help ACP countries to diversify their exports.
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Free Trade as a Means for Poverty Eradication? Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) and Political AlternativesEconomic Partnership Agreements (Epas) • September 21st, 2005
In June 2000 the Cotonou agreement – as the successor of the Lomé treaties – was signed between the European Union (EU) and 77 ACP countries (Africa, Caribic, Pacific). In so called “Economic Partnership Agreements” (EPAs) substantially all trade relations between the EU and the ACP-group will be subjected to WTO-compatible free trade principles. EPAs aim to establish "new WTO compatible trading arrangements removing progressively barriers of trade" between six regional “free trade areas” within the ACP group and the EU.
