This book is related to the development of intraregional commercial exchanges in the region of the Indian Ocean. This issue is addressed from an economic as well as from a legal point of view. The contributions, in English and French, aim to present an overview of the economic, customs-related, technical, legal and cultural restraints that hinder the creation of a free trading area.

Cet ouvrage est consacr au d veloppement des changes commerciaux intrar gionaux dans la r gion de l'Oc an Indien. Cette question est examin e sous un angle politique, conomique et juridique. Les diff rentes contributions, en anglais et en fran ais, visent tablir un tat des lieux des freins conomiques, douaniers, techniques, juridiques et culturels la cr ation d'un espace de libre change.