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COMESA Members And EU Discuss EPAs 3/29/2012 A delegation of MEPs from the European Parliament has recently held a consultative
meeting in Lusaka, Zambia, with the Chair of the Eastern and Southern Africa group of countries to discuss their Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations
with the European Union.
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COMESA Pushes For DTAs Between Member States 2/14/2012 Earlier this month, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa held a three-day forum in Lusaka which attracted officials from its member states
who are involved in negotiating double taxation agreements.
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WTO To Ease LDC Accession Requirements 1/27/2012 The Sub-Committee on Least Developed Countries, on January 20, agreed to start
work on developing recommendations to “further strengthen, streamline and operationalize”
current guidelines on the accession process of LDCs, as called for in a decision
by the Eighth WTO Ministerial Conference last month.
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Mauritius Unveils 2012 Budget 11/9/2011 Mauritian Finance Minister Xavier-Luc Duval has recently unveiled details of
the government’s 2012 finance bill, designed to promote export and market
development, and to open up the country’s economy, and providing for tax
measures intended to boost growth and investment and to promote social justice.
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Problems Foreseen For African Tripartite FTA 11/8/2011 The South African Minister of Trade and Industry, Rob Davies, has expressed the
opinion that the planned roll out of the proposed African tripartite free trade agreement may 'hit a snag' when negotiating on trade in manufactured goods between
the member countries.
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South Africa Plugs Tripartite FTA 8/26/2011 In the opinion of South Africa’s Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry,
Elizabeth Thabethe, the recent agreement to launch talks to establish a tripartite
free trade agreement between several African nations has made it more urgent to promote intra-African trade.
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COMESA Reviews Progress On Customs Union 8/9/2011 A third meeting was held this month in Lusaka by the Common Market for Eastern
and Southern Africa to study the progress made towards having a fully
implemented Customs Union by June 2012.
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African Leaders Launch Tripartite FTA Talks 6/16/2011 A leaders’ summit of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa,
the East African Community and the Southern African Development Community, held in Johannesburg on June 11 and 12, has agreed to formally launch
negotiations to establish a tripartite free trade agreement.
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South Africa To Discuss Tripartite FTA 6/9/2011 A summit of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, the East
African Community and the Southern African Development Community will be held in Pretoria on June 11 and 12 to discuss the progress made towards
a tripartite free trade agreement (FTA).
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Tripartite African Trade Talks Show Progress 5/18/2011 Ministers from countries within the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, the East African Community and the Southern African Development
Community met recently in Lusaka to discuss the progress made towards the
proposed tripartite free trade agreement.
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Tripartite African Trade Talks To Start By Mid-2011 3/11/2011 South Africa’s Minister of Trade and Industry, Rob Davies, has said that
negotiations for the development of a free trade agreement between the Southern
African Development Community, the East African Community and the
Common Market for East African States will commence towards the middle
of 2011.
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China Cuts Import Tariffs For African Countries 7/7/2010 China’s Ministry of Commerce has announced that, following an
exchange of letters, 60% of imports from 26 of Africa’s least developed
countries are duty free with effect from July 1, 2010.
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Africa Should Broaden Tax Base 5/25/2010 The African Development Bank, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and
Development, and the UN Economic Commission for Africa, have published a joint report focusing in particular on the continent’s
fiscal resilience to the financial crisis, and an analysis of appropriate tax policy going
forward.
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