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Trade Policy Review: Benin, Burkina Faso and Mali 2010
“Trade Policy Reviews” analyse the trade policies and practices of each member of the WTO. The reviews consist of three parts: an independent report by the WTO Secretariat, a report by the government, and the concluding remarks by the Chair of the WTO’s Trade Policy Review Body. The opening section - “key trade facts” - provides a visual overview of the WTO member’s major exports/imports, main export destinations, origins for its imports and other key data. This edition looks into the trade practices of Benin, Burkina Faso and Mali.
Report by Benin, Burkina Faso and Mali
Benin is a West African country situated in the inter-tropical zone, covering a total area of 114,763 km2. It is bordered by Niger and Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the west, and Nigeria to the east, and has a coastline along the Atlantic Ocean. It has a virtually unrelieved landscape, rising from south to north, and 70,500 km2 of arable land, only 15 per cent of which is farmed. As far as climate is concerned, annual rainfall is relatively low (an average of 800 mm.). Benin has two major basins: the Niger River basin and the coastal basin.