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Agreement name:	Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC)
Coverage:	Goods	Type:	Customs Union
Status:	In Force	Notification under:	Enabling Clause
Date of signature:	16-Mar-1994	Date of notification:	21-Jul-1999
Date of entry into force:	24-Jun-1999	End of implementation period:	1999
Current signatories:	Cameroon; Central African Republic; Chad; Congo; Equatorial Guinea; Gabon
Original signatories:	Cameroon; Central African Republic; Chad; Congo; Equatorial Guinea; Gabon
RTA Composition:	Plurilateral
Region:	Africa
All Parties WTO members?	No	Cross-Regional:	No

Official Web Address

Commission de la Communauté Economique

Text of the agreement

Text of the agreement	E F S
Revised Treaty	F

Annexes & related documents

Annexes	F

Consideration status:	Factual Abstract issued

Related documents

Document series: WT/COMTD/24

Document type	Language
Factual Abstract (G)	E

RTA Provisions Glossary

For details on these provisions, please consult the Glossary.

Last modified on: 01/12/2017

Topics
	All tariffs eliminated at end of implementation by at least one Party
	All quantitative import restrictions prohibited
	Rules of Origin (RoO)
		Regional Value Content Criteria (RVC)
		Cumulation among Parties
	All Export restrictions, including quantitative restrictions, prohibited
	Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures (SPS)
	Technical regulations, standards, technical barriers to trade (TBT)
		Harmonization/alignement of TBT measures at the bilateral/regional level
	Safeguard Mechanisms (Goods)
		Other Special safeguards
	Balance-of-payments measures (Goods)
	Subsidies (Goods)


	Rendez-Vous/Review/Evolutionary clause (services)
	Movement of Natural Persons
	General Exceptions
	Security Exceptions
	Accession
		Accession open to some third parties only
	Dispute Settlement (DS)
		Standing Tribunal
	Competition
		Adopts or maintains competition law
	Environment
	Gender
		Chapter on Gender
		Cooperation between the Parties