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The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa is a free trade area with twenty one member states stretching from Tunisia to Swaziland. COMESA was formed in December 1994, replacing a Preferential Trade Area which had existed since 1981.
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa is a free trade area with twenty one member states stretching from Tunisia to Swaziland. COMESA was formed in December 1994, replacing a Preferential Trade Area which had existed since 1981.