{"id":1137,"date":"2006-12-09T10:23:44","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T10:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2014-08-13T08:22:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T08:22:46","slug":"trade-targets-attainable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/southern-africa-today\/trade-targets-attainable\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade targets attainable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WITH JUST over 12 months remaining before the\u00a0SADC region can create its Free Trade Area, Member\u00a0States remain confident that they can move a gear\u00a0up to iron out outstanding impediments for the region\u00a0to achieve set targets.\u00a0Since 2000, SADC countries have been implementing\u00a0a programme towards creating a Free Trade Area\u00a0by 2008, a Customs Union by 2010, a Common Market\u00a0by 2015 and a Monetary Union by 2018.<br \/>\nHowever, the last heads of state Summit, in the\u00a0Lesotho capital of Maseru in August, raised concern\u00a0about the pace at which SADC&#8217;s economic integration\u00a0programme was being implemented.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/editorial\/sadctoday\/documents\/v9n5.pdf\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/v9n5.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\/v9n5.pdf\">English<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/editorial\/sadctoday\/documents\/portv9n5.pdf\">Portugu\u00eas<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/editorial\/sadctoday\/documents\/frv9n5.pdf\">Fran\u00e7aise<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WITH JUST over 12 months remaining before the\u00a0SADC region can create its Free Trade Area, Member\u00a0States remain confident that they can move a gear\u00a0up to iron out outstanding impediments for the region\u00a0to achieve set targets.\u00a0Since 2000, SADC countries have been implementing\u00a0a programme towards creating a Free Trade Area\u00a0by 2008, a Customs Union by 2010, a [&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-1137","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-il","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","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=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}