Thirteen years after the EAC Common Market Protocol agreement was signed by the heads of state, the East Africa Business Council is raising alarm about increasing non-tariff barriers that have led to an intra-EAC trade declining from 21 percent in 2015 to 14 percent today.
The East Africa Business Council is more concerned that this regressing of intra-EAC trade is starting to derail the chances of the regional bloc moving to the next stage of a monetary union.
