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III - Multiple memberships in African RTAs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2011

James Thuo Gathii
James Thuo Gathii
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Albany Law School
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This chapter will examine another important feature of the flexibility of African RTAs – multiple memberships. Of the fifty-one countries in Africa, only six belong to a single RTA. The other forty-five belong to at least two or more RTAs. Swaziland belongs to three RTAs – COMESA, SADC and SACU. Of all five countries in the EAC, four are also members of COMESA, while Tanzania is a member of SADC. Of the fifteen countries in SADC, eight are also members of COMESA. Figures 3.1 to 3.4 illustrate the prominence of multiple memberships in African RTAs.

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African Regional Trade Agreements as Legal Regimes , pp. 65 - 85
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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