Regional FTA
Southern African Development Community Free Trade Area (SADC FTA)
The SADC FTA was launched in 2008 under the SADC Trade Protocol; not all SADC members apply it fully.
- Abbreviation
- SADC FTA
- Status
- In force
- Type
- Regional FTA
- Scope
- Trade in goods
- Signed
- Aug 1996
- In force since
- 2008
- Member countries
- 16
Key features
- Elimination or reduction of import duties on most goods, phased in according to each party’s tariff schedule.