East Africa: Comesa-EAC-SADC Tripartite FTA to Be Launched Mid-December 2014

press release

The COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Area (FTA) would be launched during the Tripartite Summit of Heads of State and Government in mid-December 2014, in Egypt, taking into account the fact that the majority of the Tripartite Member/Partner States have made ambitious tariff offers and were agreed on Rules of Origin to be applied in the interim whilst further work continues on product specific Rules of Origin.

This is the outcome of the Tripartite Sectoral Committee of Ministers meeting on trade held in Bujumbura, Burundi on 24 and 25 October 2014. Mauritius was represented at this meeting by the Director, International Trade Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and International Trade, Mr Assad Bhuglah.

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