Economic Partnership Agreements: What happens in 2008?

The terms on which the EU and the Africa Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states trade with each other are established in the Cotonou Agreement 2000, which specifies that a new regime must be agreed by end-2007, a date that coincides with the expiry of a World Trade Organization (WTO) waiver for the current regime. This Briefing Paper, which builds upon substantial ODI work, identifies the best way forward.