SADC Southern African Development Cooperation

SAFTA South Asian Free TradeAgreement

SAP Structural Adjustment Policies
In the dozens of countries where the IMF and World Bank have imposed structural adjustment programs, the people who have seen deterioration in their standards of living, reduced access to public services, devastated environments, and plummeting employment prospects have not been passive
read: A Brief History of Resistance to Structural Adjustment

Singapore
the WTO Ministerial December 1996.

SPS Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards
The WTO Agreement sets constraints on government policies relating to food safety and animal and plant health, from pesticides and biological contaminants to food inspection, product labelling and genetically engineered foods. Like TBTs, these rules are seen by many as a way to reduce or eliminate government regulations that protect human and animal health in favour of private interests.

Sweatshop (spanish: Maquiladora)
Manufactures in "free-trade zones" in the south but increasingly also in the north ("Empowermen Zones") - mainly in the garment sector with low wages, no labour rights, child labor

http://www.sweatshopwatch.org