Africa's Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) along two dimensions: regime-wide rules and product-specific rules. This paper … PTAs include: The Agadir Agreement, the Greater Arab Free Trade Area, the Common Market for East and South Africa, the East … Africa Community, the Economic Community of West African States and the Southern African Development Community. To this list …

used in Africa's many regional economic communities. We analyze preference margins, the availability of intermediate inputs …, trade volumes, and potential certification costs in Africa. We find that although preference margins are high for many … Africa's large numbers of small and mid-size enterprises. We then argue that the AfCFTA should pursue progressive …