The COMESA (English: Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa) is a regional organization with seat in the Zambian Lusaka. A goal is the creation of a Common Market for the countries of the eastern and southern Africa. It became formally 1994 as a successor organization of the PTA existing since 1981 (English: Preferential trade AREA for Eastern and Southern Africa) based.

Task

The main task of the COMESA is appropriate for a customs union to at the end of of 2004 in the Handelsbereich with the goal of the creation of a foreign trade zone, the partial in November 2000 was already begun and.

Problems

It gave to continue repeated delays of the intended lowerings of customs duties and also skepticism like it with the COMESA is. However succeeds getting the COMESA their goals going, although it comes again and again because of the variability of the members and the geographical distances to problems.

Members

• Egypt
• Angola
• Ethiopia
• Burundi
• Djibouti
• Eritrea
• Kenya
• Comoros
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Libya (since June 2005)
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Mauritius
• Namibia
• Rwanda
• Zambia
• Seychelles
• Simbabwe
• The Sudan
• Swaziland
• Uganda

Lesotho and Mozambique quit 1997, and Tanzania 2000 their membership. South Africa did not have interest in the membership because of other contracts.

Further information

• COMESA web site (repeatedly not attainable)

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