Tripartite Free Trade Area

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) is a proposed African free trade agreement between the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), Southern African Development Community (SADC) and East African Community (EAC).^[1]

On June 10, 2015 the deal was signed in Egypt^[2] by the countries shown below (pending ratification by national parliaments).

On 15 June 2015 at the 25th African Union Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, negotiations were launched to create an African Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) by 2017 with, it was hoped, all 54 African Union states as members of the free trade area.^[3]

Country	Current Trade Zone(s)
Angola	SADC
Botswana	SADC
Burundi	COMESA & EAC
Comoros	COMESA
Djibouti	COMESA
Democratic Republic of the Congo	COMESA & SADC
Egypt	COMESA
Eritrea	COMESA
Ethiopia	COMESA
Kenya	COMESA & EAC
Lesotho	SADC
Libya	COMESA
Madagascar	COMESA & SADC
Malawi	COMESA & SADC
Mauritius	COMESA & SADC
Mozambique	SADC
Namibia	SADC
Rwanda	COMESA & EAC
Seychelles	COMESA & SADC
South Africa	SADC
South Sudan	COMESA
Sudan	COMESA
Swaziland	COMESA & SADC
Tanzania	SADC & EAC
Uganda	COMESA & EAC
Zambia	COMESA & SADC
Zimbabwe	COMESA & SADC