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Trade
Agreement /
Organization
African,
Caribbean, and
Pacific Group of
States (ACP)
Year of
membership:
1975
West African
Economic and
Monetary Union
(UEMOA)
Year of
membership:
1994
World Trade
Organization
(WTO) Year of
membership:
1995
Community of
Sahel-Saharan
States (CEN-
SAD) Year of
membership:
1998
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Member Countries Purpose
Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Benin,
Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, CAR,
Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cook Islands, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, DRC,
Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republics, Equatorial Guinea,
Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guinea,
Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho,
Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania,
Mauritius, Micronesia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Niger, Nigeria,
Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis,
Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Sao Tome
and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands,
Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Timor-Leste,
Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Tanzania, Vanuatu,
Zambia, Zimbabwe
Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea Bissau, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Niger,
Senegal, Togo
153 member states and 30 observers. Non-members include:
American Samoa, Anguilla, Antarctica, Aruba, Bermuda, Bouvet
Island, British Indian Ocean territory, Cayman islands, Christmas
Island, Cocoa Islands, Cook Islands, East Timor, Falkland Islands,
Faroe Islands, French Guiana, French Polynesia, French Southern
Territory, Gibraltar, Greenland, Guadeloupe, Guam, Heard &
McDonald Island, High Seas, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Martinique, New
Caledonia, Niue, Norfolk Island, Pitcairn, St. Helena, St. Pierre &
Miquelon, Syria, Tokelau, Turkmenistan, Turks & Caicos Islands,
US Minor Outlying Islands, Virgin Islands, Wallis & Futuna Islands,
Western Sahara
Benin, Burkina Faso, CAR, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Gambia,
Libya, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan,
Togo, Tunisia
Sources: http://fr.reingex.com/fr139m.asp; http://www.nyulawglobal.org/Globalex/CEMAC ECOWAS.htm;
http://www.uemoa.int/uemoa/historique.htm; http://www.africa-union.org/root/AU/MemberStates/map.htm;
http://en.reingex.com/en139censad.asp; http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/tdstat33fas enfr.pdf; http://cen-sad.org;
http://www.acpsec.org/; http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ibi-iai.nsf/eng/bi18694.html
Yaoundé Conventions,
Lomé Conventions,
Cotonou Agreements:
20 year partnership with
the EU, including
negotiations towards
Economic Partnership
Agreements (EPAs)
Elimination of non-tariff
barriers, reduction of
common tariffs,
adoption of harmonized
systems of accounting
(SYSCOA, IHPC),
printing of CFA Franc at
the Central Bank of
West African States
(BCEAO), located in
Dakar, Senegal.
Reduction of tariffs and
elimination of non-tariff
barriers to trade,
settlement of trade
disputes, agriculture,
labor standards,
environment,
competition,
investment,
transparency, patents
etc
Strengthening of peace,
security and stability to
achieve global
economic and social
development
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