Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Table of cases
- Introduction
- I African Regional Trade Agreements as Flexible Legal Regimes
- II Variable geometry: A defining aspect of African RTAs
- III Multiple memberships in African RTAs
- IV African RTAs in the context of Article XXIV of the GATT
- V Trade liberalization commitments and realization time frames
- VI Financing African RTAs
- VII African RTA Judiciaries
- VIII Trade remedy regimes
- IX Monetary unions in Africa
- X Intra-African regional trade integration
- XI African RTA relations with non-African RTAs
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
I - African Regional Trade Agreements as Flexible Legal Regimes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Table of cases
- Introduction
- I African Regional Trade Agreements as Flexible Legal Regimes
- II Variable geometry: A defining aspect of African RTAs
- III Multiple memberships in African RTAs
- IV African RTAs in the context of Article XXIV of the GATT
- V Trade liberalization commitments and realization time frames
- VI Financing African RTAs
- VII African RTA Judiciaries
- VIII Trade remedy regimes
- IX Monetary unions in Africa
- X Intra-African regional trade integration
- XI African RTA relations with non-African RTAs
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
Trade integration in Africa is often viewed in light of the European Union and other regional integration arrangements like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). From this perspective, integration is regarded as necessarily destined to proceed on a linear path where tariffs and non-tariff barriers are progressively eliminated, the trade regimes of member countries are linked together, and eventually their fiscal and monetary policies are harmonized. In the European experience, trade integration has been the result of a series of treaty commitments that also created a supranational organization to which the states transferred certain types of authority.
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