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Maximin Emagna, un expert en négociations APE dans cette région, déclare à Xinhua, l’agence de presse du gouvernement chinois, qu’il s’agit là d’un niveau de libéralisation approprié, compte tenu du niveau de développement économique de l’Afrique centrale et du délabrement des tissus économiques et sociaux ayant suivi l’instabilité sociopolitique liée à des conflits armés dans des pays comme la Centrafrique, la RDC et le Tchad.
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The director of regional integration at the Cameroon Ministry of Economy, Planning and Regional Development, Chantal Elombat, reiterated the view that central Africa’s market access offer should remain 60% liberalisation and 40% exclusion. Maximin Emagna, an expert on the EPA negotiations in this region, in comments to Xinhua, the Chinese government news agency, also considered this to be an appropriate level of liberalisation, given the level of economic development of the central African region and the deterioration of the social and economic fabric of the region following socio-political instability in Central African Republic, the DRC and Chad. These factors, coupled with the current financial crisis, have placed central Africa among the world regions with the lowest levels of economic development. This reality, it was judged, justified only limited tariff elimination over an extended, 25-year, period.
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