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Agreement name:	EFTA - SACU
Coverage:	Goods	Type:	Free Trade Agreement
Status:	In Force	Notification under:	GATT Art. XXIV
Date of signature:	26-Jun-2006	Date of notification:	29-Oct-2008
Date of entry into force:	01-May-2008	End of implementation period:	2015
Current signatories:	Botswana; Lesotho; Namibia; South Africa; Eswatini; Iceland; Liechtenstein; Norway; Switzerland
Original signatories:	Botswana; Lesotho; Namibia; South Africa; Eswatini; Iceland; Liechtenstein; Norway; Switzerland
RTA Composition:	Bilateral; All Parties are RTAs
Region:	Africa; Europe
All Parties WTO members?	Yes	Cross-Regional:	Yes

Official Web Address

European Free Trade Association (EFTA)
Southern African Customs Union (SACU)

Text of the agreement

Text of the agreement	E

Annexes & related documents

Annexes	E

Consideration status:	Factual Presentation issued
Date of Consideration	15-Mar-2010

Related documents

Document series: WT/REG256

Document type	Symbol	Language
Notification	WT/REG256/N/1	E F S
Factual Presentation	WT/REG256/1/Rev.1	E F S
Questions and Replies	WT/REG256/2	E F S
Questions and Replies	WT/REG256/3	E F S
Note on the Meeting of the CRTA	WT/REG256/M/1	E F S

Document type	Language
Factual Presentation (G)	E F S

RTA Provisions Glossary

For details on these provisions, please consult the Glossary.

Last modified on: 14/05/2019

Topics
	Tariff Rate Quotas (TRQ)
	All quantitative import restrictions prohibited
	Rules of Origin (RoO)
		Change of Tariff Classification Criteria (CTC)
		Regional Value Content Criteria (RVC)
		Other Criteria(s)
		De minimis rules
		Outward-processing allowed
		Cumulation among Parties
	All Export Duties and Charges prohibited
	All Export restrictions, including quantitative restrictions, prohibited
	Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures (SPS)
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO SPS Agreement
		Transparency obligations (SPS)
	Technical regulations, standards, technical barriers to trade (TBT)
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO TBT Agreement
		Transparency obligations (TBT)
	Safeguard Mechanisms (Goods)
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO Safeguard Agreement
		RTA-specific safeguard measures always permitted
		Special safeguard in Agriculture
		Other Special safeguards
	Balance-of-payments measures (Goods)
	Anti-Dumping measures
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO Agreement on Anti-Dumping
	Countervailing measures
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing measures
	Subsidies (Goods)
		Prohibition of agricultural export subsidies
	MFN Clause/Preferences extended from other RTAs (Goods)
	Sector-specific chapter/section or other legal instrument (Goods)


	Services
		MFN provision (Services)
	Rendez-Vous/Review/Evolutionary clause (services)
	Other Investment Provisions
		Investment Promotion
	Rendez-Vous clause (Investment)
	General Exceptions
	Security Exceptions
	Accession
		Accession open to some third parties only
	Dispute Settlement (DS)
		Ad hoc Adjudicative Process
		Choice of forum
		Exclusive use of forum chosen
	Government procurement
	Intellectual property rights
		Enforcement
	Competition
		Dispute Settlement not applicable (Competition)
	Environment
		No relaxation of environmental laws
	Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)
		Cooperation

Document title
EFTA
SACU