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Meanwhile, the total trade volume between the two countries during the same period hit 12.895 billion dollars, with a 10 percent annual increase, according to Han Bing, minister counselor for commercial affairs of the Chinese embassy in Egypt.

Chinese creditors have already granted Angola a three-year debt relief, which will enable the country to get more than $700 million in its next tranche of IMF (International Monetary Fund) financing in the coming days, according to the finance minister Vera Daves.

According to the World Customs Organisation (WCO), inconsistent and obsolete laws and regulations, and resistance to change and lack of transparency in Customs administration operations in most African countries are major challenges to ensuring that the free trade takes off and continues uninterrupted in the operational phase starting this month.