{"id":1116,"date":"2008-02-09T10:12:28","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T10:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2014-08-13T08:10:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T08:10:28","slug":"2008-sadc-year-of-free-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/southern-africa-today\/2008-sadc-year-of-free-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 SADC Year of Free Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE YEAR 2008 is a milestone for the SADC region\u00a0with the official launch of the Free Trade\u00a0Area, and a target of 85 percent of all product\u00a0lines trading at zero tariffs.\u00a0The tariff phase-down has been done on a\u00a0step-by-step basis with each schedule taking effect<br \/>\nevery January since 2001. Thus, as of January\u00a02008, the 85 percent target was deemed effective.\u00a0The remaining 15 percent, constituting sensitive\u00a0products, will have tariff barriers removed\u00a0from 2008 to 2012.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/editorial\/sadctoday\/documents\/v10n4.pdf\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/v10n4.jpg?resize=100%2C134&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"100\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/editorial\/sadctoday\/documents\/v10n4.pdf\">English<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/editorial\/sadctoday\/documents\/portv10n4.pdf\">Portugu\u00eas<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/editorial\/sadctoday\/documents\/frv10n4.pdf\">Fran\u00e7aise<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE YEAR 2008 is a milestone for the SADC region\u00a0with the official launch of the Free Trade\u00a0Area, and a target of 85 percent of all product\u00a0lines trading at zero tariffs.\u00a0The tariff phase-down has been done on a\u00a0step-by-step basis with each schedule taking effect every January since 2001. Thus, as of January\u00a02008, the 85 percent target [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-southern-africa-today"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h5b0-i0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}