Tag: EAC

Tracking EAC compliance in the movement of capital, services and goods Achieving regional integration is not easy, but has a significant pay-off. The objective of establishing the...

The East African Community (EAC) achieved a common market in 2009 when the Heads of States and Governments signed the Common Market Protocol (CMP). It became effective in July 2010...

The $5 billion East African pharmaceutical market is expected to grow by more than 12% per year for the next five years, as lifestyle changes in the region lead to higher rates of ...

tralac organised a “Geek Week” from Monday, October 31 to Wednesday, November 2, 2016 in Nairobi, Kenya. The three day workshop was held at the request of the Kenya A...

East African Community (EAC) member states should hasten the finalisation and enactment of the EAC Anti-Counterfeit Law in order to establish a regional framework to fight counterf...

This paper aims to make a contribution to the ongoing debate in Kenya and the East African Community (EAC) about sub-standard drugs, access to medicines, local pharmaceutical produ...

The 10 years of hauling cargo from Mombasa port to Kigali have made Pascal Rubimbura an unusually cautious long distance trucker. Over the period, the Rwandan driver has come to...

The objective of the East African Community (EAC) is to deepen the integration process within the Community through liberalisation and promotion of intra-regional trade. The E...

Preamble We, the private sector of the East African Community, have developed this Code of Conduct for Business in the East African Community together with its Rules & Procedu...

Top donor aid recipients According to data from the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) – a consortium of 34 donor countries – official development ass...

The objective of this paper is to firstly set the background for a discussion and analysis of Kenya and its merchandise trading background before presenting a more detailed analysi...

In recent times tralac has published extensively on African trade, with an emphasis on southern and eastern Africa as the Tripartite FTA developed. There has not been a commensurat...

This paper analyses trade between the three Regional Economic Communities (RECs) of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the African Economic Community (EAC)...

African economic integration is a longstanding ideal; regularly confirmed in declarations adopted at meetings of African Governments. The Abuja Treaty, for example, records many de...

For advanced regional economic integration arrangements, beyond trade in goods, the free movement of labour, is an essential part of the agenda. The free movement of labour creates...

Africa’s economic prospects can be greatly improved through minerals processing, the expansion of manufacturing activities, and the production and export of nontraditional agricu...

Obama Administration to Expand Trade Africa Initiative U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman and trade ministers from the East African Community (EAC) marked a milestone for Tr...

Negotiations have been finalized in preparation for the launch of Africa’s largest free trade area in May, officials said on Tuesday. The Common Market for Eastern and Southern ...

Five years have now elapsed since the Heads of State of the five East African Community (EAC) partner states (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda) signed the Protocol on th...

East African businesses are set to trade more with India by learning how to take advantage of the country’s duty-free market access scheme, facilitated by the...