The African Continental Free Trade Area is a trade agreement covering 54 African nations, and its effect on pricing runs through one line of your cost model: import duty. Members committed to eliminating tariffs on 90 percent of tariff lines, with a longer phase-in for least developed countries, so goods moving between State Parties can reach zero duty — but only when two separate tests are both passed. First, the goods must meet the rules of origin for their specific tariff line, either as wholly obtained, meaning entirely produced in one State Party such as raw cocoa beans or unroasted coffee, or as substantially transformed, meaning imported inputs that satisfy a product-specific rule such as a change in tariff classification or a regional value content threshold. Second — and this is the test most claims fail — the destination country must actually have liberalised that tariff line in its own schedule. A valid Certificate of Origin against a line the importing country excluded is entirely valid and saves nothing. Because duty commonly moves a landed cost by several percent, and because it is answered at the HS code rather than at the country, get the tariff classification right before modelling any saving. Afrikoni surfaces AfCFTA duty treatment inside each quote so the comparison is on landed cost rather than unit price.