IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/sprchp/978-3-032-14051-7_5.html

Repositioning Tunisia in the AfCFTA Era: Difficulties, Reflections, and Prospects for Progress

Author

Listed:
  • Insaf Guedidi

    (WTO Chairs Programme (WCP), University of Tunis
    Department of Economics, Universitat Jaume I)

Abstract

This chapter analyses Tunisia’s accession to the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and its potential to reposition the country within African and global trade networks. It examines Tunisia’s trade history, its structural dependence on Eurocentric value chains, and the opportunities and constraints presented by the implementation of AfCFTA. The analysis highlights Tunisia’s challenges in building regional value chains, harmonising rules of origin, and overcoming non-tariff barriers, while also pointing to comparative advantages in agro-processing, manufacturing, and services. Using lessons from previous preferential trade agreements, this chapter argues that successful AfCFTA participation requires institutional reform, private sector engagement, logistics modernisation, and digital innovation. The findings suggest that AfCFTA can serve as a catalyst for Tunisia’s structural transformation, enhancing supply chain resilience, reducing vulnerability to external shocks, and enabling more inclusive and sustainable development.

Suggested Citation

  • Insaf Guedidi, 2026. "Repositioning Tunisia in the AfCFTA Era: Difficulties, Reflections, and Prospects for Progress," Springer Books,, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-032-14051-7_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-14051-7_5
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a
    for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-032-14051-7_5. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.