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)

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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

## References

1. ↑ "TRIPARTITE COOPERATION". South African Development Community. http://www.sadc.int/about-sadc/continental-interregional-integration/tripartite-cooperation/.
2. ↑ "Africa creates TFTA - Cape to Cairo free-trade zone". BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-33076917. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
3. ↑ Luke, David; Sodipo, Babajide (23 June 2015). "Launch of the Continental Free Trade Area: New prospects for African trade?". International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development. http://www.ictsd.org/bridges-news/bridges-africa/news/launch-of-the-continental-free-trade-area-new-prospects-for-african. Retrieved 26 December 2015.

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