Customs union
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
West African integration with a trade liberalisation scheme and a common external tariff. Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger left the community in January 2025.
- Abbreviation
- ECOWAS
- Status
- In force
- Type
- Customs union
- Scope
- Goods and services
- Signed
- May 1975
- In force since
- 1975
- Member countries
- 12
Key features
- Common external tariff applied to imports from non-members.
- Free movement provisions within the bloc (goods, services, people and/or capital to different degrees).