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SourceCNBC Africa · first published 2021-11-02Watch on YouTube

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AfCFTA: How to make trade work for Africa

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CNBC Africa examines the unresolved rules-of-origin question after trade ministers met in Accra, the technical knot that determines whether AfCFTA commerce can genuinely begin.

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