She told a media briefing on the outcome of the 14th SACU council of ministers meeting in Phakalane Golf Estates on Friday that SACU has made great strides in the development of various instruments like tariff board, national bodies, SACU single origin, mutual administration document and capacity building. "Establishment of a permanent institution which in this case is the secretariat, mobilisation of technical liaison committees and the commission and the common external tariff have been achieved to date," she said.
The Commissions and Technical Liaison Committees (CTLC) are a continuation of institutions that existed under the 1969 SACU agreement which provides a broad mandate. Moremi said the work of the Tariff Board, the Tribunal and the Common Negotiating Mechanism (CNM) will be broadened under new initiatives.
She added that SACU has facilitated trade and adopted five customs initiatives which are, one stop border post arrangement, single administrative document, joint border controls cooperation programme, electronic data interchange and capacity.
