Economic Partnership Agreements: Jeopardizing a United Africa

Source:

ACORD - Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development, Issue # 4, p.1-4 (2007)

URL:

http://sociofonia.org/docs/EPAs_jeopardizing_united_africa.pdf

Notes:

The European Union is currently negotiating Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), with 77 States in Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific (ACP). For the past three decades, ACP countries have had preferential access to European markets through the Lomé and Cotonou agreements. EPAs will dramatically change this relationship. EPAs will be essentially Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), creating free trade between the EU and ACP countries, with no duties or quotas on substantially all trade between the regions.