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2009

Antitrust and Trade Regulation

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Cornell University Law School

West Africa

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A Legal Appraisal Of The West African Free Trade Area, Adedokun O. Ogunfolu Apr 2009

A Legal Appraisal Of The West African Free Trade Area, Adedokun O. Ogunfolu

Cornell Law School Inter-University Graduate Student Conference Papers

African countries after independence in the latter half of the twentieth century embraced the formation of Free Trade Areas (FTAs), provided for under Article XXIV of the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT 1947), as an exception to Article I Most Favored Nation (MFN) clause. FTAs were the adopted anodyne to reverse systemic underdevelopment wrought by departing colonialists from Europe and the emergence of the European Union. Sub-Saharan Africa encompasses West Africa, and accounted for 1.1 per cent of world trade in 1991. West African share of world exports with the exception of Nigeria fell from 1.6% in 1980 …