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Tension mounts as Kenya awaits outcome of EPA meeting

A worker at Oserian farm. The EU accounts for 31 per cent of Kenya’s export market, especially for cut flowers, tea, fresh vegetables and coffee. The EPA deal is expected to ensure continued duty-free and quota-free access to the EU for all EAC exports. PHOTO | FILE 

Whether Tanzania signs the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) rests on the East African Community (EAC) heads of state who meet today in Dar es Salaam at an extraordinary summit.

This comes after the EAC council of ministers disagreed during their meeting which was held in Arusha on Tuesday.

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