Brexit Linkage in Trade Negotiation: A Strategy for Rejecting the European Union – East African Community Economic Partnership Agreement?

• Harrison Kalunga Mwilima ^[1]
  1. [1] Berlin School of Economics and Law

     Berlin School of Economics and Law

     Berlin, Stadt, Alemania

     
• Localización: Europe en formation: les cahiers du fédéralisme, ISSN-e 0154-9928, Nº. 388, 2019 (Ejemplar dedicado a: The future of EU-Africa relations), págs. 69-80
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The Brexit vote meant that the United Kingdom could exit the European single market and create its own trade policy. This has become a strong concern for some African countries who were negotiating to sign a reciprocal trade deal with the EU. In the case of the East African Community (EAC), some partner states refused to sign the regional EU-EAC EPA citing the problem of uncertainty due to Brexit. To address this issue, the question raised here is: how did Brexit linkage in trade negotiation increase the possibility of not achieving an EAC regional EPA deal? The article uses issue linkage bargaining strategy to show how Brexit provided a new opportunity for some countries to include additional negotiation demands, thus leading to refusals to sign the EU’s trade deal