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RESEARCH PRODUCT

The EU-Africa Trade Agreements

Helmut Asche

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Economic integrationConsolidation (business)business.industryInterimPolitical scienceDeveloping countrymedia_common.cataloged_instanceInternational tradeEuropean unionbusinessEconomic Partnership AgreementsPreferencemedia_common

description

This chapter scrutinizes the successive rounds of EU-Africa agreements and the four-tier preference system of the European Union for developing countries, with special attention to the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA). Full EPAs and interim EPAs are reviewed in terms of the resulting country configurations in Africa and their impact on the officially intended consolidation of African regional communities. The analysis concludes that the artificial EPA configurations do not correspond to any existing REC in Africa. If they last, they will have a very critical effect on Africa’s regional economic integration, all the more as they start to be emulated in other trade agreements between African and Northern parties.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2021-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75366-5_11