Tripartite Free Trade Area

On June 10, 2015 the deal was signed in Egypt^[2] by the countries shown below (pending ratification by national parliaments).

On June 15, 2015 at the 25th African Union Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, negotiations were launched to create an African Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) by 2017 with, it was hoped, all 54 African Union states as members of the free trade area.^[3]

Country	Current Trade Zone(s)
Angola	SADC
Botswana	SADC
Burundi	COMESA & EAC
Comoros	COMESA
Djibouti	COMESA
Democratic Republic of the Congo	COMESA & SADC
Egypt	COMESA
Eritrea	COMESA
Eswatini	COMESA & SADC
Ethiopia	COMESA
Kenya	COMESA & EAC
Lesotho	SADC
Libya	COMESA
Madagascar	COMESA & SADC
Malawi	COMESA & SADC
Mauritius	COMESA & SADC
Mozambique	SADC
Namibia	SADC
Rwanda	COMESA & EAC
Seychelles	COMESA & SADC
South Africa	SADC
South Sudan	EAC
Sudan	COMESA
Tanzania	SADC & EAC
Uganda	COMESA & EAC
Zambia	COMESA & SADC
Zimbabwe	COMESA & SADC

References

^ "TRIPARTITE COOPERATION". South African Development Community. Retrieved March 14, 2015.
^ "Africa creates TFTA - Cape to Cairo free-trade zone". BBC News. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
^ Luke, David; Sodipo, Babajide (June 23, 2015). "Launch of the Continental Free Trade Area: New prospects for African trade?". International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development. Retrieved December 26, 2015.

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