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All customs and excise collected in the common customs area are paid into South Africa's National Revenue Fund. The revenue is shared among members according to a revenue-sharing formula, as described in the agreement. South Africa is the custodian of this pool.
The Agreement established a customs union area with free trade amongst the parties. The success of the customs union encouraged some British residents to seek political unification, which ultimately resulted in the creation of the Union of South Africa in 1910. (Basutoland, Southern Rhodesia, and Swaziland did not join the political union.)
Negotiations were conducted from 2003 to 2006 until the agreement was signed by all members on 26 June 2006 in Hofn, Iceland. [3] A prerequisite for a trade agreement was well-established trade relations between South Africa, Switzerland and Norway. It made it relatively easy for the sides to initiate and successfully conclude FTA negotiations. [4]
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The Southern Africa Customs Union and Mozambique EPA is a continuity trade agreement based of the EU's EPA with the Southern African Customs Union states; these include Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, and South Africa, while the UK EPA also incorporated Mozambique which had joined the customs union since the EU–SACUM EPA was signed. [41]
The Common Monetary Area (CMA) links South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho and Eswatini into a monetary union.The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) includes all CMA members in addition to Botswana, which replaced the rand with the pula in 1976 as a means of establishing an independent monetary policy.
A multilateral free trade agreement is between several countries all treated equally, and creates a free trade area.Every customs union, common market, economic union, customs and monetary union and economic and monetary union is also a free trade area, and are not included below.
South Africa AA (2000) South Korea: European Union–South Korea Free Trade Agreement (entered in to force on 13 December 2015) [23] Switzerland FTA (1973) Tunisia AA (1998) Turkey CU (1996) EU Overseas Countries and Territories [24] Vietnam: European Union-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (2020)