ACRONYMS USED IN EPA PRESENTATION

EPA – Economic Partnership Agreement

EU – European Union

WTO– World Trade Organisation

SADC – Southern African Development Community

ACP – African, Caribbean & Pacific Countries

MZZ – Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe

ESA – East and Southern Africa (Configuration negotiating and EPA with the EU)

DRC – Democratic Republic of the Congo

CEMAC - Central African Economic and Monetary Community

EAC – East African Community

SACU – Southern African Customs Union

AM[T] – Angola, Mozambique and Tanzania (As part of the SADC configuration negotiating and EPA with the EU)

TDCA – Trade, Development and Cooperation Agreement (Between RSA and the EU)

AMT – Angola, Mozambique, Tanzania

LDCs – Least Developed Countries

BLNS – Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland

DFQF - Duty Free, Quota Free

RoO – Rules of Origin

GSP – Generalised System of Preferences

IEPA – Interim Economic Partnership Agreement

MFN – Most Favoured Nation

BLSM – Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique

AU – African Union