African Trade Policy Centre

Harare urged to deploy strategies to ensure private sector plays active role in AfCFTA implementation

Harare, Zimbabwe, October 01, 2019 (ECA) – To benefit from the African Continental Free Trade Area, Zimbabwe must deploy deliberate strategies towards ensuring the private sector, a key stakeholder in production and trade, is strategically positioned to exploit larger market opportunities offered by the AfCFTA, with reduced tariff and non-tariff barriers, says Batanai Chikwene, an Economic Affairs Officer at the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).

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Zimbabwe’s private sector ready to play active role in AfCFTA implementation

Harare, Zimbabwe, October 1, 2019 (ECA) – Zimbabwe’s private sector says it is ready and fully seized with matters to do with the historic African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) that is set to create one of the world's largest single markets, accounting for over $4 trillion in spending and investment across the continent.

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All set for workshop to validate Zimbabwe’s AfCFTA Implementation Strategy

Harare, Zimbabwe, 30 September 2019 (ECA) – All is set for an Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), African Union Commission and Zimbabwe government workshop to validate Harare’s strategy on the implementation of the historic African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).

The workshop, which runs from 2-3 October under the theme Expanding Industrial and Trade Growth through the AfCFTA, will be preceded by a day-long meeting to sensitise the country’s private sector on the AfCFTA.

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Advisory Board of ECA’s Centre of Excellence for Digital Identity, Trade and Economy meet to review progress

New York, NY, 26 September 2019 - The second meeting of the Advisory Board of the ECA’s Centre of Excellence for Digital Identity, Trade and Economy held on the margins of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly discussed the progress of work of the Centre and lauded ECA’s efforts in advancing Africa’s digital agenda.

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