imports as well as the relative competitive position of African potential export suppliers. This is the result of weak … infrastructure, productivity and trade facilitation — in short, acute export supply constraint that characterizes the African export … the challenge of export supply constraint, export competitiveness and diversification is found to be crucial. This in turn …

The objective of this research is to reexamine the constraints to export supply in ECOWAS countries, mainly in intra … estimates show tariffs are not a constraint on ECOWAS countries' export supply. From these results, we conclude that the low … export diversification of ECOWAS economies remains the major constraint on their capacity to supply the intra-regional market …