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welcome back and thank you very much for staying with us right here on news today the Southern African Development Community group of countries the signing of an economic partnership agreement with the European Union the deal will amalgamate south africa's a free trade agreement with the EU which has stood for over 15 years our European correspondent Jack Parow reports citrus fruit is one of South Africa's largest exports into the European Union over 600,000 tons every year is part of the over one trillion rands worth of yearly trade done between the EU and the Southern African Development Community of 12 countries in the region and now with the signing of an economic partnership agreement with the EU trade should increase it opens up the EU market basically fully for those countries in southern Africa and it's a symmetric so we don't demand the same liberalisation for for Botswana or South Africa lizard to et cetera and also some of the very sensitive areas are protected so it's a way to strengthen the possibilities to trade with each other to take away tariffs the EU has signed economic partnership agreements across Africa in a bid to gain preferential access to markets and the European Union is insisting this one with southern Africa is provisionally implemented before it signed off in national parliaments some say it's a bully tactic saying look if we don't if we don't provision the apply the agreement we are going to withdraw your preferential market access that you had so far so it's putting a lot of pressure on the region to hurry up the application of the agreement which is bad news we think for a democracy the EU the EPA means selling its vehicles machinery electrical equipment pharmaceutical and processed food which make up most of its exports into southern Africa will get easier and cheaper but some fear bringing down trade barriers and opening up markets will mean the EU can muscle out competition in Africa and flood African market with European products this agreement does however include strict protections for African product names like South African stellenbosch and Paul mine's Andrew a bush tea Jack parekh s ABC News Brussels