The Changing Global Trade Architecture: Implications for Sub-Saharan Africa's Development

This issue of Commonwealth Trade Hot Topics explores questions around the changing global trading architecture over the past 15 years. It examines how these changes have impacted on Africa’s economic development and the nature of trading relations with its traditional developed country partners, the European Union, the UK and the USA, and its main developing country partner, China. It also examines the implications of ‘Brexit’ - the UK's departure from the European Union - and offers some policy recommendations for African policy-makers and trade negotiators.