EPZ firms shed 5,337 job openings amid Agoa uncertainty

Workers at the Export Processing Zone in Athi River where companies operate under the tariff-free zone. 

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Kenya lost more than 5,000 new job opportunities within its Export Processing Zones (EPZs) in the last financial year as uncertainty over duty-free access to the US market delayed factory expansion and contributed to company exits.

New job openings are potential career options and future possibilities, whereas actual jobs are concrete, active roles where people are hired and get paid.

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