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South Africa is the EU's largest trading partner in Southern Africa and has a FTA with the EU. South Africa's main exports to the EU are fuels and mining products (27%), machinery and transport equipment (18%) and other semi-manufactured goods (16%). However they are growing and becoming more diverse.
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]
See South Africa–European Union relations. South Africa has strong cultural and historical links to the European Union (EU) (particularly through immigration from the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Greece) and the EU is South Africa's biggest investor. [128] Since the end of South Africa's apartheid, EU – South ...
The Delegation for Relations with South Africa (D-ZA) is a delegation of the European Parliament.Its current chair is the German politician Udo Bullmann. [1]It was created by the European Parliament in 1994 after inter-parliamentary relations with South Africa were frozen during the apartheid years. [2]
South Africa–European Union relations (1 C, 3 P) F. ... Pages in category "Bilateral relations of South Africa" The following 76 pages are in this category, out of ...
The European Union has concluded free trade agreements (FTAs) [1] and other agreements with a trade component with many countries worldwide and is negotiating with many others. [2] The European Union negotiates free trade deals on behalf of all of its member states, as the member states have granted the EU has an "exclusive competence" to ...
Since the end of South Africa's apartheid, EU South African relations have flourished and they began a "Strategic Partnership" in 2007. In 1999 the two sides signed a Trade, Development and Cooperation Agreement (TDCA) which entered into force in 2004, with some provisions being applied from 2000.
The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) was created to allow European countries to partake in a free trade area with less integration as within the European Communities (later European Union). Most of the countries initially in EFTA have since joined the EU itself, so only four remain outside, Norway , Iceland , Liechtenstein and Switzerland .