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Title Economic trade between Africa and the European Union (with special reference to Sudan)
Full text http://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/volltexte/3154/
Date 2007
Author(s) Widaa, Elsadig Dafaelseed
Abstract Wirtschaftlicher Handel zwischen Afrika und der Europäisch Union mit besonderer Berücksichtigung auf den Sudan. - Africa's trade relations encompass a network of bilateral, regional and multilateral linkages. Africa's main trading partners, including the European Union (EU) and other developed countries, have taken the initiative through offers of preferential access in terms of duties, quotas, and free access to a large number of products from Africa. EU preferences have had a significant impact on the relatively small number of African states that are able to export preferred products, such as temperate agricultural products and fish. The Cotonou Agreement offers market access conditions for African exports to the EU. The utilisation rate of the Cotonou Agreement was around 90 percent in 2001, which was higher than that of the Generalised Scheme of Preferences system (GSP). The EU plays singular role with regards to developing countries exports, both because of its market and because of its numerous reciprocal and non-reciprocal preferential agreement. This show how effective EU's preferential agreements are in granting developing countries improve market access. How far preferences indeed utilised by exporters, when entering the EU's market? So the EU preferences to Sub-Saharan Africa were fairly well utilised. Best example is the value of EU tariff preferences and their significant proportion of their exports excluding Everything But Arms (EBA) .While Africa's economic performance has developed positively over the last decades, the continent has not kept up with the growth of world trade and its share has consequently been declining. In 1980, African exports represented six percent of world trade. In 2002 this rate dropped to only two percent. A decline in commodity prices is a crucial factor responsible for this decrease. This is particularly noteworthy in the case of Africa because of the continent's dependency on only a few markets and products.
Subject(s) Europäische Union; Außenhandel; Sudan; Handel zwischen Afrika und der EU; EU; Economics
Language eng
Publisher Universität Freiburg; Wirtschafts- und Verhaltenswissenschaftliche Fakultät. Institut für Allgemeine Wirtschaftsforschung
Type of publication Text.Thesis.Doctoral
Format application/pdf
Rights /doku/lizenzen/1_Standard_mit_POD.pdf
Identifier urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-opus-31542
Repository Freiburg - University of Freiburg
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