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Trade agreement talks start between UAE and Tunisia
By Chris Hamill-Stewart
March 20, 2025, 6:16 PM
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The UAE is Tunisia's biggest trading partner among the six countries in the Gulf Cooperation
Council, with non-oil trade valued at $350 million in 2024
The UAE has started negotiations with Tunisia on a bilateral trade and investment agreement.
In a virtual meeting between the two nations’ ministers of trade, officials expressed their
commitment to expanding and deepening bilateral relations, the official UAE news agency WAM
said.
The UAE and Tunisia will proceed to negotiate specific chapters and provisions covered by a so-
called comprehensive economic partnership agreement, or Cepa.
If and when signed, the deal will be the UAE’s 27th Cepa.
The UAE is Tunisia’s biggest trading partner among the six countries in the Gulf Cooperation
Council, with non-oil trade valued at $350 million in 2024, up almost 8 percent on the year before.
The main non-oil products the UAE exports to Tunisia are semi-finished iron, sulphur and raw
aluminium, according to the Observatory of Economic Complexity.
https://www.agbi.com/trade/2025/03/trade-agreement-talks-start-between-uae-and-tunisia/
