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Three States ready to pilot the COMESA electronic Certificate of Origin

Three COMESA Member States, Eswatini, Malawi, and Zambia, have successfully integrated and interfaced their national systems with the COMESA Electronic Certificate of Origin (e-CO) system. They are now poised to commence the first phase of piloting its implementation. The COMESA e-CO is a vital component of the COMESA digital Free Trade Area (FTA) Action Plan,…
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15 Member States Ready to Pilot the COMESA Electronic Certificate of Origin

Fifteen COMESA Member States are ready to  start piloting the COMESA Electronic Certificate of Origin (eCO) System. The eCO is one of the latest tools developed under the COMESA Digital Free Trade Area (DFTA) initiative. Burundi, DR Congo, Egypt, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Tunisia, Zambia and Zimbabwe have indicated their…
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15 Member States Ready to Pilot the COMESA Electronic Certificate of Origin

Fifteen COMESA Member States are ready to  start piloting the COMESA Electronic Certificate of Origin (eCO) System. The eCO is one of the latest tools developed under the COMESA Digital Free Trade Area (DFTA) initiative. Burundi, DR Congo, Egypt, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Tunisia, Zambia and Zimbabwe have indicated their…
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Malawi Media Enlisted in Communicating COMESA Regional Integration

In an initiative to demonstrate the impact and benefits of COMESA led programmes in Member States, Malawi hosted a media sensitization workshop on 7 – 8 March 2024 in Lilongwe, organised by the COMESA Secretariat in collaboration with the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MIT). Attended by over 35 media practitioners in the public and…
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Building Capacity for Digitally Enabled Trading System

Implementing digital trade facilitation reforms have positive impacts on intra-COMESA exports. It is estimated that an increase of 10 percent in the adoption of digital trade technologies would result in a 5.5 percent increase in intra-COMESA exports. The regional organization is therefore scaling-up the Free Trade Area (FTA) to a Digital Free Trade Area (DFTA),…
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Use of Technology Key to Boost Intra-Africa Trade

COMESA will continue to leverage on technology to create cheaper and easily accessible processes under its Trade Facilitation Programme to further deepen intra-regional trade and take advantage of recent revelations that the bloc has a trade potential of over USD$100bn. Using digital platforms coupled with advocacy, sensitization and information dissemination, the bloc is expected to…
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COMESA Council of Ministers Meet

Lusaka, Tuesday, 09 November 2021: The COMESA Council of Ministers Meeting conducted their 42nd meeting today, to take stock of the status of implementation of regional integration programmes in the last one year.  Attended by Ministers responsible for trade, commerce, industry and foreign affairs, the meeting received reports of the sectoral meetings that have been…
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SPEECH BY HER HONOUR THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA MRS. W. K. MUTALE NALUMANGO, MP DURING THE OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE 42ND COMESA COUNCIL OF MINISTERS MEETING

CHAIRPERSON OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS; HONOURABLE MINISTERS; THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF COMESA; YOUR EXCELLENCIES AMBASSADORS AND HIGH COMMISSIONERS ACCREDITED TO THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA AND PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVES TO COMESA; REPRESENTATIVES OF INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL ORGANISATIONS; OUR CO-OPERATING PARTNERS HERE PRESENT; HEADS OF COMESA INSTITUTIONS; MEMBERS OF STAFF OF THE COMESA SECRETARIAT; DISTINGUISHED DELEGATES; MEMBERS…
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Tunisia Ready to Participate in the COMESA Free Trade Regime

Tunisia is ready to fully participate in the COMESA Free Trade Area regime (FTA) one year after giving notification of participation in the trade regime in March, 2020. To prepare for this, the COMESA Secretariat through the Division of Trade conducted a three-day virtual sensitization workshop for Tunisia on 20th April 2021, covering not only…
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