Lomé Convention

noun COMMERCE, FINANCE

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› an agreement made in 1975 at Lomé, the capital of Togo, under which the European Union helps some of the poorer countries of Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific (ACP), by offering them special trade arrangements

(Definition of Lomé Convention noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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