EU AND EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY FINALISE TRADE DEAL
October 1st, 2014
The European Union (EU) and the East African Community (EAC) finalised yesterday (Thursday) a comprehensive agreement to boost trade, including of food products, between their regions.A new ‘economic partnership agreement’ will give food manufacturers in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda open access to the EU market. “[EAC] countries will now be able to focus on improving their economic performance without worrying about the potential loss of full duty-free quota-free access to the European market due to their improving status,” according to a ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.