The advantages of an intra‐Maghreb free trade area

Bibliographic Data

ID12589596
AuthorsMessaoud Boudhiaf (corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume4
Issue2
Pages121-132
Publication date1999-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMediterranean Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1362-9395 • E-ISSN: 1743-9418
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13629399908414689
OpenAlexW2020661031
LanguageEN
References cited13

The free trade area with the EU brings no new advantages to Morocco or Tunisia but it allows both countries to retain advantages acquired in the past. Evaluated here are, on the one hand, the positive and negative effects of the free trade area between Tunisia and the EU and, on the other hand, the effects of an area that Tunisia is to share simultaneously with the EU, Morocco and Algeria. In the latter context, positive effects could arise from ‘trade creation’ and from an increase in export prices provoked by the elimination of duties on trade between member countries. Negative effects could originate from ‘trade diversion’. For Tunisia, an intra‐Maghreb free trade area would be relatively more beneficial than an FTA with the EU because the advantages of this potential trade area would be new and could stimulate economic activity in the region

Business · Context (archaeology · Economic integration · Economics · Free trade · Geography · International economics · International free trade agreement · International trade · Regional trade · Trade barrier · Trade creation · Trade diversion · Global trade and economics · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis

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