EAC sets up ‘hotline’ in cross-border trade
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EAC sets up ‘hotline’ in cross-border trade
THE EAST African Community (EAC) Secretariat is set to avail a trade hotline providing cross-border traders with a platform to register challenges encountered and get prompt feedback, across all EAC border posts.
EAC Secretary General Dr Peter Mathuki.
This measure comes in to resolve persistent non-tariff barriers (NTBs) and reduce the time spent in moving goods and persons, hence increasing intra EAC trade, which currently stands at 15 per cent of the partner states’ total trade volumes.
EAC Secretary General Dr Peter Mathuki made his first visit to the Namanga One Stop Border Post (OSBP) yesterday, meeting officials of trade facilitation agencies and cross border traders to exchange views on how to ease cross border trade.