{"id":2140,"date":"2018-03-22T13:19:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T16:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/?p=2140"},"modified":"2018-03-22T15:02:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T18:02:01","slug":"paises-africanos-fecham-o-maior-acordo-de-comercio-desde-a-omc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/2018\/03\/22\/paises-africanos-fecham-o-maior-acordo-de-comercio-desde-a-omc\/","title":{"rendered":"African leaders sign continental free-trade agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1SaXxNipIQ4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Times Rwanda<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">African leaders have signed an agreement to set up a massive free-trade area to improve regional integration and boost economic growth across the continent. The deal to create the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was signed&nbsp;at an extraordinary summit in Kigali, Rwanda by representatives of<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>44 of the 55 African Union (AU) member states. The agreement commits countries to removing tariffs on 90 percent of goods, with 10 percent of &#8220;sensitive items&#8221; to be phased in later. It will also liberalise trade in services and might in the future include free movement of people and a single currency.&nbsp; AfCFTA will now have to be ratified by individual countries.&nbsp;By creating a free-trade zone, African leaders hope to boost intra-Africa trade, which stands at around 10 percent of all trade across the continent.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/section\/read\/231460\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via The New Times Rwanda African leaders have signed an agreement to set up a massive free-trade area to improve regional integration and boost economic growth across the continent. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/2018\/03\/22\/paises-africanos-fecham-o-maior-acordo-de-comercio-desde-a-omc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">African leaders sign continental free-trade agreement<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[43,64],"tags":[117],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.10.7","language":"en","enabled_languages":["br","en"],"languages":{"br":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2143,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions\/2143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}