EU Hosts Negotiating Round with 5 African Nations in Economic Partnership Talks
The European Union held its fourth negotiating round with five African nations to expand the existing Economic Partnership Agreement, the European Commission announced in an April 22 report on the negotiations. The participating nations are Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles and…
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Zimbabwe. The parties discussed seven primary issues: customs and trade facilitation; mutual administrative assistance protocol; sanitary and phytosanitary issues; rules of origin; trade and sustainable development; trade in services, investment liberalization, digital trade; and economic and development cooperation, the EC said. Both sides submitted detailed proposals for rules of origin and also discussed a joint text on trade and sustainable development for the first time, it said.