ISDS Case Map
EPAs
Economic Partnership Agreements between the EU and ACP countries (under the Cotonou Agreement)
The European Union has not agreed to include trade concessions made at the Swakopmund negotiations in the interim economic partnership agreement, but intends to look at the rules of origin provisions to prevent the breakup of the Southern African Customs Unions
Dr Cheikh Tidiane Dieye, Trade Programme Co-ordinator for Civil Society Organizations in West Africa, is sure that negotiations would probably continue till January 2010 since both the EU and ECOWAS had not agreed on the percentage of the market they intend to be liberalized.
Right now, the EU's EPAs are devastating Africa's regional economic blocs through divide-and-conquer, reversing the resistance we saw from African countries a year ago.
The European Union and the West African countries have agreed to conclude a regional agreement on trade in goods and development cooperation by October 2009.
The Minister of Trade and Industry Dr Hage Geingob yesterday provided rare behind-the-scene reasons that have kept the protracted Economic Partnership Agreement between Namibia and the European Union from being concluded despite months of negotiations.
The European Union may have bowed to pressure from Nigeria and other African Caribbean and Pacific countries by shifting the commencement of the controversial Economic Partnership Agreement from the June 30 deadline to October 2009.
South Africa has no right to enforce 'punishment' on the other Southern African Customs Union members for signing an interim economic partnership agreement with the European Union, an economist says.
The European Union signed an interim trade deal on Thursday with the Southern African countries of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland.
The first trade priority for the upcoming Swedish presidency of the European Union is to close the free trade agreement with South Korea
Now, Africans are hitting back at Europe
