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HELD THIS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2025-2026 IN NEW CAIRO, EGYPT, THE 17TH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS OF TRADE OF THE AFRICAN CONTINENTAL FREE TRADE AREA-ZLECAF

African countries, through their Ministers of Commerce, adopted this Tuesday, September 16, 2025 in New Cairo, Egypt, the rules of origin in the automobile sector with 60% of intrans which enter into manufacturing must be of origin from the producing country and in the textile sector to thus promote the industrialization of the African continent and intra-African trade with 1 billion 400 million consumers, and this, by consolidating the implementation of the tariff dismantling

Key resolutions of the 17th meeting of the Council of Trade Ministers of the African Continental Free Trade Area-ZLECAF which was held in the new Egyptian capital under the co-chairmanship of Wamkene Mene, Secretary General of the ZLECAF and the Egyptian Minister of Trade and Investment, Hassan Al-Kathib.

With these resolutions, African countries are now on a good path to stop being others' markets and rather increase trade between them and conquer foreign markets;
They also reiterated their commitment to always take a common position in the face of exogenous shocks including the trade war triggered by the Trump Administration with the increase in customs duties, one of the resolutions of the 16th meeting of the ZLECAF Council of Ministers held last April in Kinshasa.
said the Minister of Foreign Trade of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Julien Paluku Kahongya in an interview given to the Congolese and international press following this meeting.

Note also that the future of AGOA in the face of the foreign policy of the United States of America was discussed during this 17th meeting of the ZLECAF Council of Ministers.