The Trade and Industry Committee of the African Union's Economic, Social and Cultural Council is established to bridge Africa with the rest of the world, execute the investment and trade policies to boost inter and intra Africa trade, connect with stakeholders, organisations, enterprises to strengthen the economic integration, execute Agenda 2063[1] Continental Frameworks,[2] provide agile and effective service to key projects (African Continental Free Trade Area), conduct business data analysis regarding the global trading business and its influence, and build Africa as a sustainable and powerful trading and industrial partner in the global arena during 2002, as a part of Africa Union, which was previously known as Organisation of African Unity (1963-1999). The current Commissioner of this department is H.E. Albert Muchanga from Zambia (since 2017). This department covers the units of trade, industry, customs cooperation, AfCFTA and Mining. It deals with the following:
The Chairperson of the committee is Hassan Sumonu