Tripartite Free Trade Area

Short description: Proposed trade agreement

The Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) is a proposed African free trade agreement between the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), Southern African Development Community (SADC) and East African Community (EAC).^[1]

On June 10, 2015 the deal was signed in Egypt^[2] by the countries shown below (pending ratification by national parliaments).

On June 15, 2015 at the 25th African Union Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa , negotiations were launched to create an African Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) by 2017 with, it was hoped, all 54 African Union states as members of the free trade area.^[3]

Country	Current Trade Zone(s)
Angola	SADC
Botswana	SADC
Burundi	COMESA & EAC
Comoros	COMESA
Djibouti	COMESA
Democratic Republic of the Congo	COMESA & SADC
Egypt	COMESA
Eritrea	COMESA
Eswatini	COMESA & SADC
Ethiopia	COMESA
Kenya	COMESA & EAC
Lesotho	SADC
Libya	COMESA
Madagascar	COMESA & SADC
Malawi	COMESA & SADC
Mauritius	COMESA & SADC
Mozambique	SADC
Namibia	SADC
Rwanda	COMESA & EAC
Seychelles	COMESA & SADC
South Africa	SADC
South Sudan	EAC
Sudan	COMESA
Tanzania	SADC & EAC
Uganda	COMESA & EAC
Zambia	COMESA & SADC
Zimbabwe	COMESA & SADC