With trade barriers ,we will not get anywhere

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Government calls for cutting trade barriers to spur regional trade
Coastweek
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 ...
EAC, ITC launch new project to boost intra-African tradeDaily News | The National Newspaper...

Tanzania will enhance efforts to remove barriers to intra-African trade relations that hamper economic growth and poverty reduction initiatives.

Some of the findings documented in the East African Community (EAC) Common Market Scorecard 2014 raise questions as to whether member states are truly serious about integrating their economies.

Last week, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) met in Kenya for its regular ministerial conference. The meeting produced several breakthroughs, including a plan to phase out agricultural export subsidies and to eliminate tariffs on many IT products.

14 UK companies cutting across various sectors e.g. Education and Training, Security, Consultancy, Healthcare amongst others are hoping to penetrate new trade opportunities within Tanzania by taking part in UKTI London and South East trade mission to Tanzania between October 22nd-24th 2014. 
This is the first, independent visit by UKTI London and South East to Tanzania and East Africa.

Tanzania is fast emerging as a thriving commercial entity with a GDP growth rate of over 7% year upon year....

What happens when barriers are lifted
Billings Gazette
Many years ago as a new teacher, my first students lived on the slopes of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. One girl had been given the name "Poison Trouble" at birth. She became a Christian during her teen years, immediately changing her name to "Glorious Easter.

>At a time when the East African Community (EAC) appears to have successfully agitated for the removal of dozens of  trade barriers in the bloc, more non-tariff barriers (NTBs) have been reported.

The East African Community (EAC) member states have been called on to enhance the involvement of the private sector and civil society in regional project activities mostly through consultative dialogue frameworks as part of efforts to significantly boost regional trade and investments.

Mwanza 25th  May,2015: Tanzania Chamber of Commerce Industry and Agriculture (TCCIA) has organized a two days Private Sector Stakeholders Forum from 26th to 27th May to discuss on the Non Tariff Barriers (NTBs) impeding transit trade and exportation of Tanzania originating products to the East African Community Region and other regions such as Southern African Development Community (SADC).
The Private Sector Stakeholders' forum will bring together key players in the trade including Private...