Africa has taken a big step toward greater continental integration. Representatives of almost all of the 55 members of the African Union have spent the last five days hammering out the final details of three different agreements in the Rwandan capital of Kigali. And on March 21, 44 countries signed the largest of those, the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA). African leaders are heralding the AfCFTA as the largest trade agreement since agreements on the WTO were signed over two decades ago. The agreement, which aims to set up a rules-based trading system, outlines several specific protocols. It aims to remove tariffs on 90 percent of goods while slowly phasing out tariffs on the remaining 10 percent. Regarding trade facilitation, it includes language often seen in other free trade agreements requiring that imported and domestically produced goods be treated with the same sanitary and phytosanitary measures.