Committee on Trade and Development - Council for Trade in Services - Notification of Regional Trade Agreement - Tunisia and Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe - Revision

NOTIFICATION OF REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENT

Revision*

 

1.

Member(s) notifying:

Republic of Tunisia

2.

Date of notification: 21 November 2025

3.

Notification pursuant to:

[ ] Article XXIV:7(a) of GATT 1994

[ ] Article V:7(a) of GATS

[X] Paragraph 4(a) of the Enabling Clause

4.

Parties to the Agreement:

Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea‑Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

N.B.: To date, a minority of countries party to the agreement have begun trading within the framework of the AfCFTA.

5.

Date of signature: 21 March 2018

6.

Date(s) of entry into force: 30 May 2019

7.

Brief description of the Agreement:

The AfCFTA Agreement is the treaty establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area and providing for Protocols on Trade in Goods, Trade in Services, Rules and Procedures on the Settlement of Disputes, Investment, Intellectual Property Rights, Competition Policy, Digital Trade, and Women and Youth in Trade.

N.B.: Certain Protocols remain under negotiation and have not yet been finalized.

8.

Text and related schedules, annexes and protocols are:

[ ] submitted to the WTO Secretariat (electronic format)

[X] available from the following official Internet link(s):

https://au.int/sites/default/files/treaties/36437-treaty-consolidted_text_on_cfta_-_fr.pdf

 

 

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* The present document supersedes all previous _WT/COMTD/RTA27/N/1 and _S/C/N/1185 documents.