Final report: Third Meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Team on the Treaty for the Establishment of a Preferential Trade Area in Eastern and Southern Africa

Abstract

The meeting was one in a series of meetings of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Team on the Treaty for the establishment of. the Preferential, Trade Area. The purpose of the meeting was to continue and finalize negotiations on a draft protocol on rules of origin and one on transport and communications, and to consider draft protocols on transit trade and transit, facilities, simplification" and harmonization of trade documents and procedures and standardization of goods, to hold preliminary discussions on the Botswana- Lesotho-Swaziland report and to finalize the revised list of commodities to be traded once the PTA is established.