AGREEMENT ESTABLISHING A TRIPARTITE FREE TRADE AREA AMONGTripartite Free Trade Area Agreement • March 11th, 2024
WE, the Member States of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, the Partner States of the East African Community, and the Member States of the Southern African Development Community, hereinafter referred to as “Tripartite Member/Partner States”:
ContractTripartite Free Trade Area Agreement • March 27th, 2018
There are no translations available.Tripartite Free Trade Area Agreement • November 22nd, 2024
Today, 25th July 2024, is an historical date for Africa. It is the date of entry into force of the Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) Agreement. The TFTA is an inter-regional co-operation and integration arrangement amongst countries of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) which aims at combining the three Regional Economic Communities (RECs) into an enlarged Free Trade Area.
Tripartite free trade area agreement pdfTripartite Free Trade Area Agreement • July 6th, 2023
The Heads of State and Government of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), East African Community (EAC) and Southern African Development Community (SADC) met on 10 June, 2015 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt at the Third Tripartite Summit to officially launch the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA). The Agreement initially covered 26 member states across the three RECs, but with the expansion of the EAC to include South Sudan (April 2016), the total number of participating member states has risen to 27. The Tripartite Summit had given Member States 12 months from the launch of the TFTA to conclude outstanding negotiations issues on rules of origin, trade remedies and tariff offers. However, due to a number of challenges faced in the process, the deadline of June 2016 was not met, and the commencement of Phase II negotiations – covering trade in services and other trade related matters – has been delayed pending the conclusion of negotiations on Phase I issu
The Comesa-SADC-EAC Tripartite Free Trade Area Agreement and Regional Integration in Africa: Achieving the African Economic Community Dream?Tripartite Free Trade Area Agreement • December 22nd, 2017
Ever since decolonisation, Africa has always aspired for political and economic integration. The now defunct Organization of African Unity (OAU) charter underscores this dream in most succinct terms1. The story of an African Economic Community and an African government can therefore be traced as far back as to the formation of the OAU in 1963. In the year 2000, the OAU was transformed and rebranded into the African Union (AU)2 with one of its core objectives being
