ISDS Case Map
SADC
Southern Africa Development Cooperation
The EU Council of Ministers has decided to include South Africa in the SADC EPA negotiation.
The deadline is looming for the day when the preferential treatment that Namibia has enjoyed for its beef, lamb and table grape exports to the European Union ends on January 1 2008.
Despite the unpopularity of the single-country partnership proposal, it is being pursued primarily based on Europe's analysis of South Africa as the “locomotive” of Africa economic development and integration.
The European Union is insisting that some of Africa's poorest countries accept liberalisation of services, investment and competition policy as the price of better access to the world's richest market, it emerged last night.
Angola is not yet prepared to join the free trade zone in the year 2008, under the process of regional integration of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), said Tuesday in Luanda the Planning minister, Ana Dias Lourenço.
Leaders of a 14-nation southern African bloc reviewed ambitious plans for a free-trade zone and common currency as it moved a step closer towards streamlining investment norms.
The summit will focus on the current status of implementation of the Free Trade Area (FTA) in terms of the main activities required to complete the FTA by 2008.
Brendan Vicas, a senior researcher at the Institute for Global Dialogue, has warned that SADC's free trade protocol will be difficult to implement. SADC member states have again been urged to renounce their membership of other regional economic groupings.
With government seemingly in no hurry to entertain the business community advocating for the country to re-join the COMESA trade bloc, the group does not want to let go.
The association of Southern African Development Community (SADC) Chambers of Commerce and Industry cautiously welcome the signing of the finance and investment protocol by leaders of the 14-member regional trading bloc in Lesotho's capital Maseru last week Friday.
