Theme: Towards an accelerated Continental Free Trade Area and Customs Union in Africa
2 - 3 June 2011
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
 
Commitment and Sacrifice required to deliver Programme on Infrastructure Development in Africa – Says Kargbo
ECA Press Release No. 87/2011
Addis Ababa, 02 June 2011 (ECA) - Member states and regional integration experts have been urged to “put all hands on deck to achieve the continental free trade project that will transform Africa into a single economic and market space.” Ms. Jennifer Kargbo, Deputy Executive Secretary, of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) made this remark during the official opening of the 7th Session of the Committee on Trade, Regional Cooperation and Integration.
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Statement by Mr. Abdoulie Janneh, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of ECA
Delivered by Ms. Jennifer Kargbo, Deputy Executive Secretary of ECA
Abuja Treaty seeing mixed progress in Free Trade Areas and Harmonization of Regimes
ECA Press Release No. 86/2011
Addis Ababa, 01 June 2011 (ECA) -Trade and regional integration experts assembled in Addis have been urged to make strong recommendations that will see to it that member States accelerate the establishment of Continental Free Trade Area and Customs Union as agreed in the Abuja Treaty.
Mid-term review of AGOA urges better arrangements and extension beyond 2015
ECA Press Release
Addis Ababa, 25 May 2011 (ECA) - Ministers of Trade from countries that are beneficiaries of the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) said in Lusaka, Zambia, that despite the positive contribution of the AGOA to African economies, there are challenges that are hindering the realization of its full potential benefits.
Towards a Continental Free Trade Area and Customs Union in Africa – 7th session of the Committee on Trade, Regional Cooperation and Integration aims to shape debate for African Union Summit 2012
ECA Press Release No. 83/2011
Addis Ababa, 23 May 2011 (ECA) - The 7th session of the Committee on Trade, Regional Cooperation and Integration (CTRCI) will take place on 2-3 June 2011 at the Headquarters of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
   
   

Provisional Annotated Agenda [English] [Français]
Aide-mémoire [English]
Programme of Work [English] [Français]

Registration Form [English] [Français]
Ad Hoc Expert Group Meeting cum Workshop on Supporting the Establishment of inter-REC Free Trade Areas and the Establishment of Harmonized FTA regimes among RECs - Programme of Work [English] [Français]
   
 
 

Developments in International Trade 2011 [English]

Review of the ECA Regional Integration, Infrastructure and Trade Division (RITD)
Work Programme, including Priorities for the Next Biennium 2012-2013 [English]

Report to the 7th Session of Committee on Regional Integration and Trade: Developments in International Trade   [English]

Developments in Infrastructure and Natural resources in Africa [English]

Progress Report on the Implementation of the Outcomes of the Mid-Term Review Meeting of the Almaty Programme of Action [English]

Progress on Regional Integration in Africa [English]

Progress in Intra-African Trade [English]

FINAL REPORT - STUDY ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF INTER-RECs’ FREE TRADE AREAS IN AFRICA DRAWING ON LESSONS FROM THE COMESA-SADC-EAC FTA EXPERIENCE [English]

ATPC Policy Briefs

No. 1 Gender dimensions of cross-border trade in the East African Community: Kenya/Uganda and Rwanda/Burundi borders
  La place des femmes dans le commerce transfrontalier dans la Communauté de l’Afrique de l’Est – Frontières entre le Kenya et l’Ouganda et entre le Rwanda et le Burundi
No. 2 Financement de l’intégration régionale
No. 3 Negotiations on Agriculture
No. 4 The Multilateral Negotiations on Non-Agricultural Market Access
No. 5 How to Strengthen the Development Issues in the Doha Development Round: A Synthesis of Proposals in Agriculture and NAMA
No. 6 The Economic and Welfare Impacts of the EU-Africa Economic Partnership Agreements
No. 7 Informal Trade in Africa
No. 8 Economic Partnership Agreements and their Potential Impacts on Intra-African Trade
No. 9 Gender and Intra African Trade: The Case of West Africa
No. 10 The Development of Trade Transit Corridors in Africa’s Landlocked Countries
No. 11 Payments System and Intra-African Trade
No. 12 Policy Brief: Africa’s Trade Flows and Patterns
No. 13 Is there a Potential for Intra-African Trade
No. 14 Infrastructure and Intra African Trade
No. 15 Trade Facilitation and Intra-African Trade
No. 16 African U.S. Trade in the Spotlight: A Decade of AGOA

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