Kenya and Tanzania resolve 23 trade barriers after Samia visit

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Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan with her Kenyan counterpart William Ruto in Dar es Salaam. FILE PHOTO | JOY ABISAGI | NMG

Kenya and Tanzania resolved 23 restrictive regulations that had impeded trade between the two countries, following President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s Nairobi visit in May 2021, a government paper shows.

A new government paper shows that Kenya had initially targeted to resolve about seven non-tariff barriers (NTBs) — restrictive regulations which licences, quotas, embargoes, foreign exchange restrictions, and import deposits — in the financial year 2021/22 but this jumped to 31, reflecting a warm relationship between the two countries.

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