The UNDP's Regional Bureau for Africa helps the people, governments, and institutions of Africa consolidate recent achievements and effectively tackle ongoing challenges. These challenges include persistent inequalities, weak governance institutions, climate change, rapid population growth, stagnated industrialization, and increasing levels of violence.

In a nutshell

    • Origin and development nexus

    • AfCFTA RoO negotiations advisory

    • Capacity-building

    • 3 comparative studies on rules of origin published

    • +280 AfCFTA product-specific rules of origin adopted

    • Transposition of AfCFT A Appendix IV from HS 2017 to HS 2022 adopted

    • Profile raising of the WCO-EU Rules of origin Africa Programme as a thought leader and go-to reference

    • Secured an 8M€ programme renewal

    • Extension of portfolio to customs valuation

Summary

Knowledge generation

This publication serves as a practical guide to understanding the rules of origin in Africa’s preferential trade agreements, including the AfCFTA, East African Community, ECOWAS Trade Liberalisation Scheme, and SADC. It helps businesses determine if

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