African Regional Trade Agreements as Legal RegimesAfrican regional trade integration has grown exponentially in the last decade. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the legal framework within which it is being pursued. It will fill a huge knowledge gap and serve as an invaluable teaching and research tool for policy makers in the public and private sectors, teachers, researchers and students of African trade and beyond. The author argues that African Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) are best understood as flexible legal regimes particularly given their commitment to variable geometry and multiple memberships. He analyzes the progress made toward trade liberalization in each region, how the RTAs are financed, their trade remedy and judicial regimes, and how well they measure up to Article XXIV of GATT. The book also covers monetary unions as well as intra-African regional integration, and examines free trade agreements with non-African regions including the Economic Partnership Agreements with the European Union. |
Contents
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A defining aspect of African RTAs | 34 |
III Multiple memberships in African RTAs | 65 |
IV African RTAs in the context of Article XXIV of the GATT | 86 |
V Trade liberalization commitments and realization time frames | 143 |
VI Financing African RTAs | 243 |
VII African RTA Judiciaries | 264 |
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ACP countries adopted African countries African Customs Union African Economic Community African RTAs African Union anti-dumping application Arab Maghreb Union areas Article XXIV CEMAC Central African Chapter COMESA common external tariff Common Market Protocol cooperation Cotonou Agreement Council of Ministers Customs Union decision developing countries domestic dumping duties EAC Treaty EACJ East African Community ECCAS Economic Integration ECOWAS elimination Enabling Clause exports Free Trade FTAg GATT goal Government Ibid IGAD implementation imports industry infrastructure institutions Integration in Africa International Investigating Authority investment issues July Kenya last visited 25 monetary union non-tariff barriers Organization Partner policies preferential programmes provides regimes Regional Integration Regional Trade Agreements requirement restrictions Rules of Origin Saasa SACU SADC safeguard measures sector South Africa Southern Africa subsidy Summit tion trade liberalization trade remedies Treaty Establishing Tribunal variable geometry visited 21 Aug visited 25 Oct Zimbabwe