Digital trade regulatory integration Country profile: Cameroon

Abstract

Towards the end of 2020, the Economic Commission for Africa launched an initiative on digital trade regulatory integration in Africa. The aim of the initiative was to collect information on the matter in order to: inform African Continental Free Trade Area negotiations on e-commerce; facilitate the introduction of a digital trade component in the Africa Regional Integration Index, a joint endeavor of the African Union Commission, the African Development Bank and the Economic Commission for Africa; and improve the coverage of African countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development digital services trade restrictiveness index. It is against this background that the Commission selected a set of 20 regulatory measures grouped into five pillars focusing on digital trade integration that could inform the inclusion of a digital trade component in the Africa Regional Integration Index (see annex I).