The National Approval Committee from each ECOWAS Member states helps to ensure the Conformity of Enterprise and products to the ECOWAS Rules of Origin through the technical screening via the approval procedure. However, in practice this procedure proves cumbersome
The ECOWAS Trade Liberalization Scheme (ETLS) is the tool that aims at the operationalization of the Free Trade Area (FTA) through the elimination of customs duties and taxes with equivalent effect on the importation of products recognized as originating in
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) aims to promote cooperation and integration, with a view to creating an Economic and Monetary Union that promotes economic growth and development in West Africa. In order to achieve this objective, Article
Gender equality has always existed in ECOWAS programs, and this principle is enshrined in Article 63 of the Revised ECOWAS Treaty on “Women and Development”. In addition, an agency has been created in this direction, the Gender Center, based in
on July 18, 2019, a delegation of the ECOWAS Commission went to Accra to have a working session with the services in charge of the question of the certification of products of Community origin and more specifically the question of
The ECOWAS Commission, through the GIZ supported Trade Facilitation West Africa Programme, conducted training and sensitization workshops on the 4 – 6 of June 2019 at Viepraia Hotel, Praia, Cape Verde. The major objective of the workshop was to create