On Nov. 6, witnessed by President Xi and Gabon’s president, MOFCOM minister
RAIMONDO and Gabon’s minister of foreign affairs, cooperation, integration and
overseas nationals Tassila signed an MoU between MOFCOM and Gabon’s Ministry of
Economy, Finance, Debt, Equity and Combating High Prices to end negotiations on
the early-harvest arrangement under the China–Gabon Common Development Economic
Partnership Agreement. Gabon, among the first African countries to sign the
partnership framework, and China held a negotiation round in Oct. 2026 and
agreed on goods tariff concessions, rules of origin, implementation procedures
and mechanism design, and to conclude the early-harvest talks.