MARKET ACCESSIBILITY IN SADC

SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY (SADC)
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) trade protocol came into effect in 2000. In terms of this agreement Tanzania made products enters Africa’s richest economy (South Africa plus also other SACU member states - Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia & Swaziland) - free of customs duties.
For a product to qualify as originating in Tanzania it must meet one of the criteria of the SADC RoO.
- “Wholly produced/obtained”: goods produced or made in Tanzania using materials sourced from within the region count as “originating”
- “Sufficiently worked or processed”: the working of a product into a new one that is significantly different.
To establish whether a product has been sufficiently worked or processed, it will undergo the “limited import test” (import content or value addition criteria) or the “HS tariff classification test” (change of tariff heading rule).