“Promoting inclusive trade in Africa” Boosting cross border trade through simplified trade regimes 15:15 to 16:30 | Room D3 | Thursday, June 8, 2017 | Theme: Trade and fair globalisation Organisers: CTA, ACP-EU TradeCom II Programme and ACP-EU TBT Programme

1. Promoting inclusive trade in AfricaBoosting cross border trade through simplified trade regimes: Supporting local businesses to address the
informal economy in Africa
Debate D3, Thursday, June 8, 2017 - 15:15 to 16:30

2. Organisers
#EDD17 #Trade4SDG

3. Moderator
Isolina Boto
Manager, Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural
Cooperation (CTA)

4. Stefano Manservisi
Director General
European Commission - DG for International
Cooperation and Development

5. Koen Doens
Director East and Southern Africa and ACP
coordination
European Commission - DG for International
Cooperation and Development

6. Frank Matsaert
CEO
TradeMark East Africa

7. Hermogene Nsengimana
CEO
African Organisation for Standardisation

8. Janet Ngombalu
Regional Programme Coordinator
Eastern African Grain Council (EAGC)

9. Promoting inclusive trade in Africa

10. Intra-regional trade accounted for 10% of
Africa’s total trade in 2000, growing to 16%
in 2014 (Source: African Economic Outlook
2016)

11. Intra-regional trade as a share of total
trade in Asia stood at 61%, in Europe at
69% and in the Americas at 56% in 2014
(Source: African Economic Outlook 2016)

12. Between 60% to 90% of trade costs in
Africa relate to NTBs, which go simply
beyond poor road or infrastructure quality
or high tariffs. (Source: IFPRI 2017)

13. Africa’s road density increased by 11.3 %
between 2000 and 2006 and by 35.6 %
between 2006 and 2015. (Source: IFPRI
2017)

14. 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Target 2.b of SDG2 calls for the correction and
prevention of trade restrictions and distortions in
world agricultural markets
Targets 17.10 to 17.12 of SDG 17 highlights the
importance of trade, particularly for the least
developed countries

15. High level of informal agricultural trade

16. In 2014, world exports in food and
agriculture amounted to US $ 3,251 billion.
(Source: WTO 2015)