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European Commission study predicts increase in exports and GDP once EU and EAC conclude EPA

02.03.2017
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The East African Community member states (Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Burundi) negotiated as a bloc an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) since 2007, when they decided to break out of the Eastern Southern Africa EPA configuration. In November 2007, they agreed on an interim EPA ("Framework EPA" or "FEPA"), but in June 2010 both parties agreed to continue negotiations for a full (comprehensive) EPA.

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Negotiations of the EPA between the EU and the EAC were concluded on 14 October 2014. The agreement was initialled on 16 October in Brussels by the Chief Negotiators of the EU and of EAC members. This study has the aim of presenting an analysis of the consequences of the EPA at a point in time, where all elements are known, i.e. after the end of the negotiations. It has been written to help understand the political and economic context in which the EAC-EU EPA has been negotiated; it also identifies the main elements of the agreement; and it offers an assessment of the impact of the agreement on welfare, government revenue and poverty in the EAC Partner States.

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Category
Statements on behalf of the EU
Location

Kigali

Editorial sections
Rwanda