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Trade, Customs and Monetary Affairs

Aim to achieve a unified single economic space. removal of all barriers to intra-regional trade and commercial exchanges through different stages of integration: 1. A Preferential Trade Area (PTA) Lower Tariffs 2. A Free Trade Area (FTA ) No Tariffs 3. A Customs Union (CU) - Free Trade 4. A Common Market (CM Free movement of Labor 5. An Economic Community (EU) Common Currency  COMESA has undertaken a number of programmes intended to facilitate trade in goods and services like Air transport liberalization , COMESA Carriers license & Many Others.  The COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Area 1. combined GDP of about $859 billion and a population of over 581 million people. 2. 2009-2010 period saw a 24% growth in intra-regional trade

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