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Future of the Manufacturing Sector in West Africa Under the Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union

In: Perspectives on Industrial Development in Nigeria

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  • Oyeyemi Adegbite

    (Enterprise Consultancy Services)

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Since the first decade of this century the European Union (EU) had been engaged in protracted negotiations [1] with 16 West African countries comprising 15 members of the Economic Community West African States (ECOWAS) and Mauritania with a view to fashioning out a new trade agreement between the two regions. The proposed new trade agreement otherwise referred to as the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) is expected to be a successor to the Lome Conventions and the Cotonou Agreement which had hitherto governed trade relations between the EU on the one hand and the group of African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) Countries on the other. Unlike the previous trade agreements which were non-reciprocal, under the proposed Economic Partnership Agreement it is envisaged that there will be free trade between the two regions in everything but arms. This is in line with World Trade Organization (WTO) rules which prohibit non-reciprocal preferential trade agreements.

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  • Oyeyemi Adegbite, 2021. "Future of the Manufacturing Sector in West Africa Under the Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union," Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development, in: Perspectives on Industrial Development in Nigeria, chapter 0, pages 249-266, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:aaechp:978-3-030-84375-5_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-84375-5_10
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