TRADE POLICY OPTIONS FOR EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA Paul Kalenga 14 TH OCTOBER 2005.

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TRADE POLICY OPTIONS FOR EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA Paul Kalenga 14 TH OCTOBER 2005

2 I NTRODUCTION  Regional integration: a strategic policy objective for Africa / EPAs  A recognition that EPAs should not determine the future of regional integration in Eastern and Southern Africa but should fit into and be supportive of the process  In view of the above, what are the trade policy options facing Eastern and Southern Africa?

3 THE PROBLEM  Lack of a clear and credible regional integration strategy (issuing of declarations not informed by national policy priorities/ bottom-up approaches)  Implementation problems – why?  Overlapping membership – undermines progress  Critical decision making required, if regional integration is to succeed

4 THE PROBLEM (continued)  Four schemes exist: -SACU : New Agreement / global outlook / regional integration? - SADC: FTA (2008/2012), CU (2010) ……. - COMESA : FTA (not completed), CU (2004/2008) …… -EAC: CU (2005)…./ regional integration?  Some facts: -Membership in more than one customs union is technically impossible - Countries will need to take a decision as to whether to be in a COMESA or SADC or EAC customs union (eventually) -CUs require a common external tariff (CET), a mechanism to share the customs revenue and agreeing on a common trade policy -CUs among countries at different level of industrialization and with different additional trade arrangements very difficult to set up

5 THE CHOICES  Countries need to take informed decisions on multiple memberships both with a view to deeper regional integration (future CUs) and to EPA negotiations  The choices are essentially between deeper and faster economic integration on the basis of the existing CUs acting as fast-track RECs or a larger but shallower integration project for the region  Considering the larger continental integration ambitions (AEC), it is no more politically incorrect not to belong to all RECs (demystification of political sensitivities)

6 SOME POLICY OPTIONS  “Status Quo” and larger integration option  “Variable Geometry” or “SACU+ and EAC+ Option”  “Leap Forward” Option”  The challenge is to fit EPAs into these options

7 “Status Quo” and larger integration option  SACU and EAC remain fast-tracking groups, and only comprise of their current members  SADC and COMESA to concentrate on effective implementation of the FTAs

8 “Variable Geometry”  Enlarged SACU and EAC based on countries that are ready to do so (costs and benefits)  Countries not participating in the CUs remain members of the SADC and/or COMESA FTAs

9 “Leap Forward” Option”  SADC and COMESA both become fully fledged CUs, and will merge with the current SACU and EAC respectively  All countries take a decision regarding their membership in either the SADC or COMESA CU  This means not using the existing CUs as ‘building blocks’, but doing all negotiations required to establish CUs (a very difficult process)

10 Fitting EPAs into Regional Integration Process  EPA configurations are riddled with complexities because all of them are not customs unions  The general framework of EPA (RoO, SPS/TBT, development, etc.) can be the same for all countries  The problem is market access - tariff phase-down schedules can only be negotiated individually with the EC, in the absence of customs unions  Those CUs that are in place such as SACU and the EAC can negotiate their own tariff phase-down schedules – this promotes regional integration, and even more so if ‘variable geometry’ option is adopted as a regional integration strategy in Eastern and Southern Africa

11 CONCLUSIONS  A rational regional integration strategy that solves the problem of overlapping memberships is a prerequisite for effective economic integration process in Eastern and Southern Africa  Variable geometry option – is preferred as the most efficient and fast-tracking strategy for regional integration  EPAs to support this process by strengthening existing CUs (through EPA configurations) while supporting the move towards deeper regional integration based on variable geometry  This means EPAs may lower its ambitious regional integration approach and recognize that this is rather a long-term process

12 POLICY RECOMMENDATION? WHICH WAY EPAs and REGIONAL INTEGRATION IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA?