 Future of the Manufacturing Sector in West Africa Under the Economic Partnership Agreement with the European UnionOyeyemi Adegbite ()
Chapter Chapter 10 in Perspectives on Industrial Development in Nigeria, 2021, pp 249-266 from Springer Abstract: Abstract Since the first decade of this century the European Union (EU) had been engaged in protracted negotiations [1] with 16 West African countries comprising 15 members of the Economic Community West African States (ECOWAS) and Mauritania with a view to fashioning out a new trade agreement between the two regions. The proposed new trade agreement otherwise referred to as the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) is expected to be a successor to the Lome Conventions and the Cotonou Agreement which had hitherto governed trade relations between the EU on the one hand and the group of African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) Countries on the other. Unlike the previous trade agreements which were non-reciprocal, under the proposed Economic Partnership Agreement it is envisaged that there will be free trade between the two regions in everything but arms. This is in line with World Trade Organization (WTO) rules which prohibit non-reciprocal preferential trade agreements. Date: 2021 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:aaechp:978-3-030-84375-5_10 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-84375-5_10 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development from Springer |
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