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Flip Side: Is Africa ready for duty-free acces to China?
DW (English)
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12/22/2024
China is not relenting in its efforts to deepen economic ties with Africa. It is offering duty-free access to its markets for African products. Analysts say it’s a win-win situation for China and Africa. But is Africa ready to rake in the benefits?
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Now China is offering Africa another set of goodies, this time around in trade. Its duty-free
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access to its market for African products starting December is considered by some as a game-changer
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for the continent in its quest to industrialise. But haven't we been here before? The US and other
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Western countries have made similar offers to selected African countries for some products
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in the past. So how different is China's offer and does Africa really stand to gain?
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Welcome to The Flipside. In a major push to deepen economic ties with Africa, China has now granted
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duty-free access to 100% of products originating in 33 African countries. This means that cost
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barriers for African goods entering the Chinese market will be significantly lower. It should
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also make the overall prices of African goods competitive and give exporters more opportunities
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to penetrate the vast Chinese consumer market. For some analysts, the arrangement is long overdue.
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China wants to expand market access for African agricultural products
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and deepen collaboration in e-commerce. African governments are in support of this,
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especially since China's imports of agricultural products are already on the increase. In the first
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seven months of 2024, the Asian giant imported $3.58 billion worth of agricultural products
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from Africa, a 7.2% increase compared to the same period last year. With this widening of access to
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the Chinese market, are African businesses actually ready to take advantage? Why not?
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Because mostly it's the barriers that are created that impede Africans from trading.
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Some of the requirements and all that, if there is some of these requirements and then also is
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the tariffs and all that, why not? When an opportunity is created, there are no slides on
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African leaders to take that opportunity and create their endeavoring environment for its
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business people to do what is needful. In principle, the U.S. has had a similar plan to boost
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economies in Africa, but its long-standing African Growth and Opportunity Act, or AGOA, has come with
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many challenges. And then there is also the African Continental Free Trade Area, or the AFCFTA,
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which is yet to realize its full potential. So how should the continent position itself
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as the interest by the West and China peaks? Even though each country would have its priorities,
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we must find synchrony and try to synchronize some of the things because we are all primary
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producers. We are all growing crops, we are all raw material exporters, cotton, cocoa, coffee,
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and things like that. So we have to come together, try to synchronize our interests. We have the AU.
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We should not be going to China, every country going to China, when AU can represent Africa.
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So we must give AU the necessary things to bite. And that's the flip side.
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