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    A New Epoch of Commerce Between African Nations Commences

    Posted On 04 Jan 2021
    By : New Africa Business News, Staff Correspondent
    Comments: 12

    By Abdul Rahman Bangura–

    Photo Credit: African Centre for a Green Economy

    NEW AFRICA BUSINESS NEWS (NABN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- The agreement reaches completion at a time when business impatience are soaring across much of the rest of the world. The 55-nation Africa Union (AU) will reflect the event in a ceremony that appears just hours after the UK evacuates the European Union’s single market and a new post-Brexit trade agreement immigrates into force. The primary goods will start to seep under an African–wide free-trade agreement on Friday, the completion of more than five years of negotiations on slicing cross-border tariffs.

    Africa is envisaged to be the world’s vastest free-trade zone by area when its covenant comes to be fully functional by 2030. The union has a probable market of 1.2 billion people and an incorporated gross domestic product of $2.5-trillion. The consensus “will fundamentally change the economic fortunes of our continent,”

    President Cyril Ramaphosa, who wields the AU’s twirling chairmanship, announced in a speech Thursday. “It is the start of a new era of trade between African countries when the continent will produce the goods and services it needs when its economies will grow, industrialize and diversify, when it will realize the great potential of its abundant
    natural resources.”

    Intra-African trade fell to 14.5% of the total in 2019, from 15% the year before. The free trade agreement could strengthen the percentage to 22%, and marketing within the landmass could rise to more than $231 billion even if all other circumstances continued intact, the African Export-Import Bank stated in an announcement circulated on
    December 15th, 2020. Internal cargoes accounted for 52% of total trade in Asia and 72% in Europe, according to Afreximbank data.

    The treaty strives to reduce or eradicate cross-border tariffs on most goods, promote the tendency of capital and people, promote investment and pave the way for a continent-wide customs union. All but one of the 55 nation acknowledged by the AU have approved to enlist the area and more than half have upheld the agreement. Eritrea, which has primarily sealed thriftiness, is the only holdout. The arrangement of the trading federation could buffer the region against proceeding Coronavirus-related anxieties and escalating trade uncertainties, as well as lessen its susceptibility to inimical tenures of trade and price progressions for stocks, Afreximbank announced last month.

     

    For New Africa Business News (NABN) Abdul Rahman Bangura Reports,  Africa Correspondent

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    1. Kim January 4, 2021 at 1:21 am Reply

      Thank you, New Africa Africa Business News for all you guys doing, and Happy 2021. The Africa free trade is here and is here to stay. Luanda Angola. Kim

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    2. Edward January 4, 2021 at 1:29 am Reply

      Thank you for the report. Intra African trade would left hundreds of millions out of poverty. Great for us all. Dar es Salaam Tanzania. Edward

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    3. David January 4, 2021 at 1:34 am Reply

      Free trade within Africa, is another major dream come true. Thank to us all. Kigali Rwanda. David

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    4. Bartho January 4, 2021 at 1:39 am Reply

      Trading freely is Africa. Thank you for the report. Calatrava Equatorial Guinea. Bartho

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      Like to thank you for the newsletters and happy new year. Manchester England. Andy

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    6. Irad January 4, 2021 at 1:50 am Reply

      Free trade within our great Continent is way to go and thank you, Journalist Bangura and your teams for reporting. Lilongwe Malawi. Irad

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