Tunis plays host to workshop on non-tariff barriers to intra-COMESA trade

Tunis: A national workshop on non-tariff barriers to intra-COMESA (Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa) trade is held in Tunis from May 13 to 16, at the initiative of the COMESA General Secretariat, the Ministry of Trade and Export Development announced on Monday.This is the first event organised by COMESA in Tunisia since the adoption of Organic Law No. 2024-12 in February 2024, which approved the agreement on hosting COMESA activities in Tunisia, signed by the Tunisian authorities on June 19, 2023.The aim of the workshop is to introduce the COMESA programme and the regional strategy it has put in place to eliminate non-tariff barriers in the region, to raise awareness of the application dedicated to the notification of these barriers and to design a national action programme to eliminate such barriers.COMESA is a market of 500 million people with a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of $800 billion. With an area of 12 million square kilometres, COMESA covers almost two-thirds of the African contin ent.Tunisia joined COMESA in July 2018. Its membership was confirmed at a summit of the heads of state and government of the organisation's member states in Lusaka, Zambia.Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse