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The African Continental Free Trade Area in a Decaying Multilateral Trading System : Questioning the Relevance of the Enabling Clause
Simo, Regis Y. - 2019
The signature of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement during the 10th Extraordinary Summit of the African Union (AU) Assembly of Heads of State and Government held on 21 March 2018, in Kigali, Rwanda, marks a decisive turn in African regional economic integration. After...
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Trade in Services in the African Continental Free Trade Area : Prospects, Challenges and WTO Compatibility
Simo, Regis Y. - 2020
This article engages with the recently adopted agreement for the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) in the area of services. While services trade had heretofore stood at the queue of African trade pacts, the AfCFTA breaks new grounds by negotiating goods and services concurrently,...
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Trade Policy, New Century : The WTO, FTAs and Asia Rising
Sally, Razeen - 2008
In recent years, debates on international trade policy have focused on the role of the World Trade Organization and the two big political and economic powers - the USA and the EU. In this paper, the author, an expert in trade policy, argues that this focus must change. Large supra-national...
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WTO : new database on regional trade agreements
Weerth, Carsten - 2009
Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) are growing more and more important in the global trade in goods and services. Between 1958 and 2005, 141 RTAs concerning the trade in goods were indicated to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) Secretariat (since 1995 the World Trade Organization...
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Digital trade facilitation : paperless trade in regional trade agreements
Duval, Yann; Mengjing, Kong - 2017
Digital trade facilitation refers to the application of modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) to simplify and automate international trade procedures. It is rapidly becoming essential to maintaining trade competitiveness and enabling effective participation in cross-border...
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Anatomy of South-South FTAs in Asia : comparisons with Africa, Latin America, and the Pacific Islands
Yamanaka, Shintarō - 2012
In understanding the proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs) in Asia since 2000, it is important to distinguish between two types of FTAs in terms of a legal basis on either General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) Article XXIV or the Enabling Clause. The latter provision can be used...
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Implementing the African Continental Free Trade Area : A Simple, Scalable, and Fast Computational Approach for Algorithmic Governance
Atkinson, Craig - 2022
-centred algorithmic governance. To bolster the resilience of Africa’s markets to social, ecological, and epidemiological disruption, such …
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African Continental Free Trade Area : is there a trade potential for Côte d'Ivoire?
Fe, Doukouré Charles - In: Cogent economics & finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-16
Many studies present the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) as one of Africa's most new trade issues …'Ivoire in Africa, at least in 25 countries. Among them, there are 8 Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) countries. …
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Reflections on the Value of Socio-Legal Approaches to International Economic Law in Africa
Akinkugbe, Olabisi D. - 2021
-legally inspired methods (analytical, empirical, and normative) for the study of international economic law (IEL) in Africa. It … illustrates the empirical method’s importance in understanding one of the most challenging aspects of the study of IEL in Africa …: capturing the data and dynamism of informal cross-border trade phenomenon. It argues that, by conceptualizing IEL in Africa as a …
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International Trade and Investment Law : Multilateral, Regional and Bilateral Governance
Leal-Arcas, Rafael - 2010
This timely book examines international trade and investment law at various levels of governance, including unilateral, bilateral, regional, and multilateral arrangements. The author demonstrates that the nature of international trade law is fragmented and cyclical. Whilst not always...
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