U.S.-Kenya Trade Talks Seen a Risk for Africa Regional Pact

The  East African Community Headquarters today hosted a fruitful roundtable discussion with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) on the topic: Regional Trade in East Africa.
The one-day roundtable discussion was aimed at exploring how IFAD can engage with EAC and its Partners to, among others, support food trade within the East African Common Market under the EAC Food Security Action Plan; develop agriculture value chain and cross border trade, as well as accelerate...

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NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- Kenya on has called on African countries to reduce domestic trade restrictions to help improve trade within East Africa Community (EAC). Cabinet Secretary for Industrialization Adan Mohamed said domestic laws and regulations and ...
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Regional trade union urges free movement of labour within EAC
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ARUSHA, Tanzania (Xinhua) -- The East African Trade Union Confederation (EATUC) has called on East African Community (EAC) member countries to ease movement of labour by removing barriers on cross-border employment within the trading bloc.
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East Africans to reconvene trade talks with Europeans in March
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ARUSHA, Tanzania - Trade talks between the East African Community (EAC) and the European Union (EU) to liberalise trade between the two economic blocs have stalled. Both Parties therefore agreed that another Ministerial Meeting, to be preceded by ...
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EAC Partner States Urged to Implements SQMT to Facilitate Regional Trade
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Arusha — The Director General of EAC Customs and Trade Directorate, Mr. Peter Kiguta has urged EAC Partner States to play their roles in the implementation of EAC Standardization, Quality Assurance, Metrology and Testing Act (SQMT) in order to realize ...
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