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The author deels with institutional integration of African states in the WTO. He wounded how can African countries have an acting role in the process of the WTO in order to make profits and contribute to their development. They rules of the WTO are irriguated by a main principe: no discrimination. But, because of the inequalities in the level development of the WTO members, this principle can’t be applied erga omnes. This result on an institution based on mechanism of integration including solidarity. In practice, competition is distorted, and poor states don’t have advantages compared to big countries. Moreover, the paralysis of the negotiations with WTO is due mainly to the inflexibility of the developed countries on the agricultural subsidies in particular. It is not thus a question for the African countries to make figuration as it was the case with GATT, but to use their multilateral frameworks in order to make account their specificities and benefit from the globalisation. The trade, while being an instrument of development is not the only factor. That why, the necessity for the African countries to proceed moreover, with structural interne reforms, like with the reinforcement of the interafrican regional cooperation.