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Kenyan exports to start enjoying duty-free access to EU next year

A worker processes flowers for export. A deal brokered will restore Kenya’s preferential treatment to EU market. INSET: Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed. [PHOTO: FILE/STANDARD]

Nairobi; Kenya: Kenyan exporters will start enjoying duty-free access to the European market next year. A European Union (EU) diplomat said on Friday that after a two-day consultative meeting in Nairobi with Kenya Government officials, it was agreed that Kenya will be included on the list of beneficiaries of market access regulation in February next year.

Speaking in Nairobi on Friday, out-going European Union Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht said the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) will relieve Kenya from paying higher customs duties in February and give the country an ‘advance’ on the access it will get once the agreement is ratified.

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