ABSTRACT
Both French- and English-speaking developing African countries have reached a point where they have to make up their minds about their future relationships with each other and with the European Community. Five years later they signed the second Convention, due to end at the beginning of 1975, which brought with it the benefit of aid from the European Development Fund. The East African countries for their part gave the Six tariff preferences on fifty-nine items at rates ranging from two to nine per cent. The Arusha Convention was mainly a trade agreement, but it also provided for setting up a common institution, the Association Council, and included machinery for arbitrating disputes where necessary. The memorandum is intended as a basis for discussion, setting out the characteristics for a model of association capable of satisfying the needs of all the countries involved.
