Harmonizing rules of origin across Africa

The envisaged CFTA will be one market; one market needs one set of rules of origin. This chapter thus addresses the important issue of harmonizing rules of origin to anchor the CFTA. It examines the rules of origin regimes in five of the eight main RECs and highlights the important COMESA–EAC–SADC Tripartite negotiations on rules of origin as a building block for crafting continental rules of origin. It also draws lessons from practices elsewhere in the world, particularly the EU.

Related Subject(s): Economic and Social Development