Southern Africa: Angola Prepared to Implement the SADC Electronic Certificate of Origin.

In June 2025, the Committee of Ministers of Trade (CMT) approved Angola’s accession to join the SADC Free Trade Area (FTA) with an indicative date to start the implementation in January 2026. The CMT also approved a series of capacity-building activities, including the electronic certificate of origin (e-CoO), as part of the preparation for readiness for Angola to implement the SADC FTA smoothly. The SADC certificate of origin is documents which attest the origin of the goods when is trading in…