Tripartite Free Trade Area
The Tripartite Free Trade Area is a proposed African free trade agreement between the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, Southern African Development Community and East African Community.
On June 10, 2015 the deal was signed in Egypt by the countries shown below.
On June 15, 2015 at the 25th African Union Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, negotiations were launched to create an African Continental Free Trade Area by 2017 with, it was hoped, all 54 African Union states as members of the free trade area.
Country | Current Trade Zone |
| SADC |
| SADC |
| COMESA & EAC |
| COMESA |
| COMESA |
| COMESA & SADC |
| COMESA |
| COMESA |
| COMESA |
| COMESA & EAC |
| SADC |
| COMESA |
| COMESA & SADC |
| COMESA & SADC |
| COMESA & SADC |
| SADC |
| SADC |
| COMESA & EAC |
| COMESA & SADC |
| SADC |
| EAC |
| COMESA |
| COMESA & SADC |
| SADC & EAC |
| COMESA & EAC |
| COMESA & SADC |
| COMESA & SADC |