ANNUAL REPORT 2022: Implementation and Application of Rules of Origin to Enhance African Trade

The AfCFTA is a landmark achievement in fostering regional integration to unify the continent and further its socio-economic development. Under the AfCFTA Agreement, it is the rules of origin –
establishing the nationality of products produced in Africa – that will determine whether preferential trade liberalization can be a game changer for Africa’s industrialization.

The main objective of the programme is to support the African continent to improve its capacity to deal with rules of origin and ultimately to support the harmonized and coordinated implementation and application of the rules of origin under Annex 2 of the AfCFTA.

AfCFTA Exporter Registration Form

President Akufo-Addo has launched Ghana’s trading under the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement, AfCFTA.

The AfCFTA, now the world’s largest free trade area since the formation of the World Trade Organisation, will cover a market of one point two billion people, with a combined GDP of two point five trillion dollars, across the fifty-four Member States of the AU that have signed up to the Agreement.