African Regional Trade Agreements as Legal Regimes

James Thuo Gathii author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:7th Nov '13

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Gathii authoritatively analyzes and evaluates the growing importance of regional trade integration in Africa and exposes its successes and failures.

This is the first comprehensive analysis of the legal framework of African regional trade integration. It will fill a huge knowledge gap and serve as an invaluable teaching and research tool for policy makers in the public and private sectors, teachers, researchers and students of African trade and beyond.African regional trade integration has grown exponentially in the last decade. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the legal framework within which it is being pursued. It will fill a huge knowledge gap and serve as an invaluable teaching and research tool for policy makers in the public and private sectors, teachers, researchers and students of African trade and beyond. The author argues that African Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) are best understood as flexible legal regimes particularly given their commitment to variable geometry and multiple memberships. He analyzes the progress made toward trade liberalization in each region, how the RTAs are financed, their trade remedy and judicial regimes, and how well they measure up to Article XXIV of GATT. The book also covers monetary unions as well as intra-African regional integration, and examines free trade agreements with non-African regions including the Economic Partnership Agreements with the European Union.

'James Gathii has written a pioneering work that will serve as a valuable tool for practitioners and students of international law and international relations, development economics, and African politics.' African Affairs

ISBN: 9781107670303

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm

Weight: 700g

524 pages