Preliminary notes

• Published date: 19 December 2019
• Date: 19 December 2019

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Abbreviations

AfAA African Arbitration Association

AfCFTA African Continental Free Trade Area

AGOA Africa Growth and Opportunity Act

AMU Arab Maghreb Union

ANC African National Congress

AU African Union

BEE Black Economic Empowerment

BIAT Boosting Intra Africa Trade

BIT bilateral investment treaty

BOI Board of Investment of Mauritius

BWL Better Work Lesotho

CAC Corporate Aairs Commission

CCIA Comesa Common Investment Agreement

CCJA Common Court of Justice and Arbitration

CEDAW Convention on the Elimination of all forms of

Discrimination against Women

CEN-SAD Community of Sahel-Saharan States

CERDS Charter for Economic Rights and Duties of States

CETA Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement

CETU Confederation of Ethiopian Trade Unions

CFIA Cor poration and Facilitation Investment

Agreements

CMT cut, make and trim

COMESA Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa

CRC Convention on the Rights of the Child

CSO civil society organisation

DB Doing Business

DTI Department of Trade and Industry

EAC East African Community

EC European Commission

2018 ACTA Abbreviations

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