The Economic Impact of EPAs in SADC Countries

Alexander Keck and Roberta Piermartini

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Abstract: The Cotonou Agreement introduces new fundamental principles with respect to trade between the European Union and African, Caribbean and Pacific countries relative to the Lomé Convention: in particular non-reciprocal preferential market access for ACP economies will only last until 1 January 2008. After that date, it will be replaced by a string of Economic Partnership Agreements meant to progressively liberalise trade in a reciprocal way. The progressive removal of barriers to trade is expected to result in the establishment of Free Trade Agreements between the EU and ACP regional groups in accordance with the relevant WTO rules and help further existing regional integration efforts among the ACP. In this paper, an applied general equilibrium model (15 regions, 9 sectors) is used to simulate the impact of EPAs for countries of the Southern African Development Community.

Keywords: WTO; Cotonou Agreement; European Union; Lome Convention; ACP region; African-Carribean-Pacific region; EPAs; Southern AFrican DEvelopment Community; SADC; Economics; International Economic Relations; Trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-12
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