The SADC Protocol on Trade in Services provides the framework for a preferential trade agreement covering all commercial and tradable services in any services sector.

Development in Southern Africa has traditionally occurred along routes that connect areas of industry with areas of trade. From industrial sites, raw materials pass along highways, railways, canals, and pipelines to ports for export, while finished products travel …

A region striving for stronger integration needs an efficient transport system to facilitate trade and socioeconomic ties. Throughout Southern Africa, this network of roads, railways, ports, and airways currently meets the demand of most users.

The Southern African Development Community Regional Trunk Road Network (SADC RTRN) is a system of numbered roads in Southern Africa. The core of the network is the reference roads, which are major trans-regional routes. East-west oriented reference roads have a two-digit number with the second digit a 0.

Trade and transport have long been central to the Southern African Development Community (SADC) integration agenda. The original SADC trade agenda was set out in the Protocol on Trade (1996), which mandated the removal of tariffs and nontariff barriers (NTBs) to intra-SADC trade and the establishment of a SADC Free Trade Area (FTA). The

The purpose of this study is to propose a review of the SADC’s trade policies to ensure greater political will and commitment from member states of regional blocks to implement and follow the...

2018年7月31日 · The main mode of transportation is sea transportation (98% of SADC exports), while road, rail and air transportation accounts for 1%, 0.4% and 0.3% of SADC’s exports respectively. 6% of these goods are exported to the UK …

1996年7月30日 · The major alternative trade routes available to most of the landlocked SADC states are: Tanzania-Zambia (Tazara) rail line to port of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Beira Corridor, Maputo and Nacala Corridor to ports of Beira, Maputo and Nacala in Mozambique, and port of Walvis Bay in Namibia.

2022年6月30日 · The Southern African Development Community’s (SADC) trade agenda plays an important role in supporting the achievement of SADC’s broader milestones of economic development and poverty eradication for all (small scale …

Trade Liberalisation refers to the process of opening markets to international trade by reducing trade restrictions including tariffs and non-tariff barriers on the import and export of goods. SADC supports increasingly free trade as part of its agenda to eradicate poverty in Southern Africa.