SADC Rules of Origin
- SADC Rules of Origin are a set of criteria that is used to distinguish between goods that are produced within the SADC Member States and are entitled to preferential tariff treatment and those that are considered to have been produced outside SADC region that attract Most Favoured Nations (MFN) tariff rates.
- Annex I Rule 2 of the SADC Protocol on Trade as read with section 3 of the Rules of Origin Regulations sets out the origin criteria on which goods are deemed to be of SADC origin.
- Such products shall be considered as originating in a Member State if it has either been wholly produced or has been sufficiently worked or processed in that Member State.