ariranga pillay is the current president of the sadc.
ariranga pillay is the current president of the sadc.
who is the current president of the sadc?
ariranga pillay
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the sadc free trade area was established in august 2008, after the implementation of the sadc protocol on trade in 2000 laid the foundation for its formation. its original members were botswana, lesotho, madagascar, mauritius, mozambique, namibia, south africa, swaziland, tanzania, zambia and zimbabwe, with malawi and seychelles joining later. of the 15 sadc member states, only angola and the democratic republic of congo are not yet participating, however angolan trade minister joffre van-dúnen júnior said in luanda that his ministry is working to create conditions for angola’s accession to the sadc free trade area in 2019. the sadc-customs union, scheduled to be established by 2010 according to sadc's regional indicative strategic development plan (risdp), is unlikely to become reality in the near future. this is because the european union's economic partnership agreements (epa) with their inherent extra-regional freetrade regimes provided for several sadc members more benefits than deeper regional market integration within the framework of a sadc-customs union. since these sadc countries formed four different groupings to negotiate and implement different economic partnership agreements with european union, the chance to establish a sadc-wide common external tariff as prerequsite for a regional customs union is missed.
southern african development community