A new free trade area on this continent aims to increase intra-continental trade from 14.5 percent to the European level of 72 percent. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this continent whose free trade Declaration is named for the city of Kigali.
ANSWER: Africa [accept the African Continental Free Trade Area]
[10m] This small country is the only African Union member not in the African Continental Free Trade Area. In 2021, Isaias Afwerki announced this country was withdrawing troops from the Tigray Region of a nation to its south.
ANSWER: Eritrea [or State of Eritrea]
[10h] Since women conduct around 70 percent of cross-border trade, they benefit from the expansion of these agreements like the East African Community. In these agreements, countries agree on one single tariff outside the agreement and eliminate tariffs within.
ANSWER: customs union [prompt on trade bloc or trade pacts; prompt on a free trade area]
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