Clinic: Graduate Institute, Fall 2018 Executive Summary* ** * Executive Summary in French below ** Confidential Report The agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was signed in March 2018 by 44 members of the African Union. If ratified, this agreement will create the world's largest free trade area. As the first phase of the AfCFTA negotiations ends, the State Parties to the AfCFTA wish to develop a strategy to promote their interest in the tra

Clinic: Queen's/UOttawa, Canada Non-Confidential Summary The rationale for an investment protocol in the AfCFTA: How will it contribute to Africa’s sustainable development? Introduction This confidential project is authored by Alex Etkin, Ece Melisa Celebican, and Wil Longard (University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law). At the request of Phil Rourke and Rosemina Nathoo from the Centre for Trade Policy and Law, the authors prepared this project to (1) develop a rationale for an inv

Trade-Restrictive Measures (TRM) are an area of huge concern to importers and exporters in African Union Least Developed Countries (AU LDCs) located in Sub-Saharan Africa. This report identifies and analyses discriminatory government policies that adversely affect AU LDCs over the period 2009 to 2017 by using the Global Trade Alert database, a database that collects information on trade-discriminatory measures implemented by countries worldwide. The research by the students s