Mauritania Trade Agreements

Agreement Benefits Products Certificates of Origin Required

Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union - Everything But Arms (EBA)

Signed in September 2018
Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy Lithuania, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Romania, the United Kingdom, Slovakia, Slovenia and Sweden.
  • Duty Free access to the EU market for All products except weapons.
  • Regional EPA = West Africa + Mauritania (ECOWAS) with the European Union
  • All products except weapons
  • EUR 1

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
2017
  • Association Agreement with ECOWAS

N/A

Arab Maghreb Union (1989)
20 Conventions

  • Free movement of goods and people - creation of a free trade area
  • (about 0.1% of exports, and 3% of imports).

N/A

Continental Free trade Agreement CFTA (May 2019) Signed by 52 countries / 55
Single market for goods and services, facilitated by the movement of people in order to deepen the economic integration of the African continent
  • 1.2 billion consumers and 2 billion in 2050

N/A

Bilateral agreements

  • Algeria (1997)
  • The Gambia (2001)
  • Morocco (1988)
  • Tunisia (1988)
  • China (2000)
  • Kuwait (2006)
  • Qatar (2006)
  • Turkey (2005)
  • Sudan (2009)

N/A