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Interventions are necessary to reverse the harmful impacts of double taxation agreements in East Africa and beyond.

All Systems Go As Kenya-UK Trade Deal Comes Into Force  Status of the Agreement On 3 November 2020, Kenya and the UK signed the Kenya-UK Economic Partnership Agreement (the EPA) to continue the preferential zero tariff and zero quota trade of goods between the two countries. The signed provisions of the EPA were provisionally applied as of 1 January 2020, pending entry into force of the EPA. For Kenya this meant that, before ratification, the EPA would not be binding despite its provisional application to prevent disruption of preferential trade conditions. On 2 March 2021, the UK Parliament...

Kenya, UK trade agreement faces approval setback in Parliament Tuesday March 09 2021 By SAMWEL OWINO Summary MPs have taken issue with a clause in the new trade agreement between Kenya and the United Kingdom that bars Parliament from amending or expressing reservations on the pact. The legislators further argued that the clause violates the provisions of the Treaty Making and Ratification Act 2012 which gives the National Assembly powers to either approve or reject a treaty with reservations. MPs have taken issue with a clause in the new trade agreement between Kenya and the United Kingdom th...

Farmers sue to stop Kenya-UK trade deal Monday March 01 2021 Kenya’s Cabinet Secretaries Fred Fred Matiang’i (front) and Betty Maina (third left) led Kenya and the UK in signing a post-Brexit bilateral trade agreement. PHOTO | FILE Advertisement Small-scale farmers opposed to duty free access of some products from the United Kingdom want the government stopped from entering a free trade deal with Britain. The shareholder growers, under the Kenya Small-Scale Farmer Forum, have filed a petition at the High Court in Nairobi against the Kenyan government opposing the Economic Partnership Agre...