Botswana signs EPAs

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Botswana, together with Lesotho, Mozambique and Swaziland, has signed an Interim Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU), the Ministry of Trade and Industry has announced.

A statement from the ministry says the agreement was signed last Friday in Brussels, Belgium after extensive negotiations which began in 2004 between the EU and the SADC EPA configuration.

Under the new trade agreement, Botswana's exports, including beef, will now enjoy permanent duty free, quota free (DFQF) access to the European market. Additionally some textile products will benefit from single transformation for export.

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