Related Keywords: Common External Tariff, constrain textile industry, Customs Union, duty-free status, exempted from charges, expanding business, finished products, forced to stop selling goods, Kenyan companies, on raw material, to East African Community, trading bloc
More than 300 Kenyan companies have been forced to stop selling their goods to the East African Community (EAC) market. According to manufactures goods from outside the trading bloc, especially from China, are exempted from such charges, thus edging out local firms from the market.
Companies signed up on the scheme attract full duties, levies and other charges provided in the Common External Tariff (CET) for goods sold in the customs territory, according to Article 25 of the EAC Customs Union Protocol.
