North-South Free Trade Agreements are supposed to improve African countries access to competitive inputs and consumer goods, to assist in creating an enabling trading environment and to help to improve the competitiveness of domestic companies by involving them in international networks. Negative effects such as revenue losses and trade diversion are meant to be offset by safeguard measures, technical assistance, and economic growth. The effects of a free trade agreement between the EU and the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) countries, especially relating to export performance,...
North-South Free Trade Agreements are supposed to improve African countries access to competitive inputs and consumer goods, to assist in creating an ...