The history of trade in Africa as a whole

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• The economic history in general of Africa as a whole

• The WTO and the trade of Africa as a whole
• The U.S. African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA)
• The Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
• The trade in agricultural commodities for Africa as a whole
• African participation in the global trafficking in human commodities

Oppose the Crane sub-Saharan Africa Bill!

A petition of 3 March 1998. The undersigned NGOs support democracy-building and sustainable social and economic development in Africa, and so they strongly oppose the Crane Africa bill.

ICFTU report on Africa Free Trade Zones

From ICFTU Online..., 14 July 1998. Export processing zones in 25 African countries are mostly union-free zones, following the Latin American and Asian models. Many governments use SAPs to impose austerity plans, raise taxes and refuse to have any dialogue with trade union organisations.

Opening Up Africa For US Capital

By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman, 17 February 1999. Africa's ‘friends’ in Congress are preparing to again introduce a ‘NAFTA-for-Africa’ bill. The basic structure of the Africa trade bill is to condition existing and potentially some minor new aid and trade benefits on African countries' opening their economies to foreign investment and adopting the recessionary ‘;structural adjustment’ policies of the IMF.

OAU Says Integration Is Only Road To Competitiveness

From PANA, 3 March 1999. Dakar forum concludes Africa must overcome its balkanization if it is to benefit through international trade.