Link collection - A Guide to Africa on the Internet

Trade

• Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)

  Promotes regional economic integration through trade and investment. 

  
  http://www.comesa.int/

• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

  Promotes the development-friendly integration of developing countries into the world economy.

  
  http://www.unctad.org/

• WIDE Network

  WIDE monitors and influences international economic and development policy and practice from a feminist perspective. The capacity building project enables members and partners to participate in debates on the global economy by enhancing their understanding of economic and trade issues.

  
  http://www.wide-network.org/

• World Trade Organization (WTO)

  WTO deals with the rules of trade between nations at a global or near-global level. The website offers publications, trade statistics information by topic and more.

  
  http://www.wto.org/

• The FITA Africa Trade Mini-Portal

  Africa country profiles trade links by FITA (The Federation of International Trade Associations), incl. business news from Africa.

  
  http://www.fita.org/

• ACP-EU-Trade

  A non-partisan sourcing and knowledge sharing on ACP-EU trade. The ACP-EU-trade website will stop being updated as of January 1st 2012. It will remain online as an archive.

  
  http://www.acp-eu-trade.org/

• DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa)

  An advocacy organization dedicated to eradicating extreme poverty and AIDS in Africa. DATA stands for debt, AIDS and trade in Africa, it also stands for democracy, accountability and transparency in Africa.

  
  http://www.data.org/

• Global Trade Watch (GTW)

  Promotes democracy by challenging corporate globalization, arguing that the current globalization model is neither a random inevitability nor "free trade."

  
  http://www.citizen.org/

• Agritrade

  A web portal on international agricultural trade issues in the context of ACP-EU relations that provides information and analysis on key topics for ACP including EPA, WTO, CAP reform, food safety as well as major commodities.

  
  http://agritrade.cta.int/

• ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly

  Created out of a common desire to bring together the elected representatives of the European Community - the Members of the European Parliament - and the elected representatives of the African, Caribbean and Pacific states that have signed the Cotonou Agreement. 

  
  http://www.europarl.europa.eu/

• EPAs - Economic Partnership Agreements

  Background information on the idea of EPA negotiations.

  
  http://www.africa-union.org/

• bilaterals.org

  A collective effort to share information and stimulate cooperation against bilateral trade and investment agreements that are opening countries to the deepest forms of penetration by transnational corporations. 

  
  http://www.bilaterals.org/

• ECDPM - Eurpean Centre for Development Policy Development

  ECDPM contributes to building effective political economic and developmental relationships between African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries and Europe.  

  
  http://www.ecdpm.org/

• The Cooperation for Fair Trade in Africa (COFTA)

  A network of Fair Trade producer Organizations in Africa involved and working with disadvantaged grass root producers to eliminate poverty through Fair Trade. 

  
  http://www.cofta.org/

• AITIC Trade Portal

  Gateway to international trade and economic development by AITIC, an intergovernmental organisation, that helps less-advantaged countries (LACs) to benefit from the globalisation process and the multilateral trading system.

  
  http://www.acici.org/