On 21 March 2018, 44 of the 55 members of the African Union (AU) signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement.1 The agreement required members to remove tariffs from at least 90 percent of trade within the continent. The initial agreement was not signed by Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Eritrea, Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho, Namibia, Sierra Leone, South A...