SEZs ‘hold the key’ to Africa’s trade future
Head of AfCFTA says continent must look to its own markets as Trump upends global trade with his ‘America first’ tariff regime
27 April 2025 - 09:17
Africa can develop its own market by granting tariff-free access to goods produced in the continent’s special economic zones (SEZs), which will help to insulate it from the impact of the US global trade war.
Wamkele Mene, secretary-general of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) secretariat, told Business Times that the weaponisation of trade and tariffs, along with economic nationalism, had “a materially adverse impact on the African continent”...
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