{"id":33923,"date":"2026-08-26T12:23:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T12:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecae.org.et\/?p=33923"},"modified":"2026-09-03T12:16:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T12:16:40","slug":"discussions-were-held-on-the-implementation-of-the-afcfta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecae.org.et\/?p=33923","title":{"rendered":"Discussions were held on the implementation of the AfCFTA."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Discussions were held on the implementation of the AfCFTA.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">August 26, 2026<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Addis Ababa (ECAE)<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">============ =====<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ethiopian Conformity Assessment Enterprise held discussions with project coordinators from IGAD and UNECA to evaluate institutional readiness, address operational challenges, and streamline cross-border trade flows under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) framework.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Accordingly, discussions were held regarding ECAE\u2019S readiness for the implementation of the free trade area, focusing on the opportunities and challenges existing around standard harmonization and the role of conformity assessment facilities.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33926\" src=\"https:\/\/ecae.org.et\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/786070078_1392214686392721_1427678628128082065_n-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ecae.org.et\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/786070078_1392214686392721_1427678628128082065_n-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ecae.org.et\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/786070078_1392214686392721_1427678628128082065_n-1024x667.jpg 1024w, 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August 26, 2026 Addis Ababa (ECAE) ============ ===== Ethiopian Conformity Assessment Enterprise held discussions with project coordinators from IGAD and UNECA to evaluate institutional readiness, address operational challenges, and streamline cross-border trade flows under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) framework. Accordingly, discussions were held<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecae.org.et\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecae.org.et\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecae.org.et\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecae.org.et\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecae.org.et\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ecae.org.et\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33933,"href":"https:\/\/ecae.org.et\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33923\/revisions\/33933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecae.org.et\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecae.org.et\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecae.org.et\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecae.org.et\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}