Cape Verde joined the World Trade Organization in July 2008 after a working party process that began in 1999 — an accession that took nearly a decade of negotiations and required the country to restructure tariff schedules it had inherited largely intact from Portuguese colonial administration. The commemorative issue marks that accession directly.
Cape Verde joined the World Trade Organization in July 2008 after a working party process that began in 1999 — an accession that took nearly a decade of negotiations and required the country to restructure tariff schedules it had inherited largely intact from Portuguese colonial administration. The commemorative issue marks that accession directly.