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Western Africa
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Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) ECOWAS is a regional group of fifteen West African countries working to promote economic integration across the West African subregion. During President Obama’s historic U.S.–Africa Leaders Summit in August 2014, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman announced that the United States had signed a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) with ECOWAS. TIFA will provide a mechanism for expanding trade and investment both between the United States and the fifteen ECOWAS member states, and across the entire ECOWAS region.
101 Yakubu Gowon Crescent, Abuja, Nigeria www.ecowas.int
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