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Title: | Some aspects of common market trade with Africa |
Author: | Matthews, Jacqueline |
Year: | 1970 |
Periodical: | South African Journal of Economics |
Volume: | 38 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 94-98 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | European Union WTO |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1813-6982.1970.tb00246.x |
Abstract: | The Association agreements between the European Economic Community and certain African countries show an apparent opposition to the rules of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Main purpose of this paper is to discuss this problem, in view of the possibility of South Africa entering into such an agreement, if Britain joins the Common Market. Tom Soper, in an article dealing with the Nigerian Association with the EEC entitled 'A note on European trade with Africa' (African Affairs, 67 (1968), 267, p. 144/151), suggested that these agreements contradict the GATT rule of non-discrimination, and that the EEC should not expect reciprocity from the less-developed associated countries. These criticisms are examined in the first part of this paper. Soper also made a comparison between the external trade of Francophone and Anglo-phone Africa; reasons were given for the closer commercial links existing between France and Francophone Africa. An alternative explanation is considered in the second part of this paper. Notes. |