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Anxiety over trade talks with EU as Kenya falters
A worker at the Oserian Flower Farm located in Kenya’s Rift Valley packs a bouquet of roses at the semi automated home pack in readiness for export to Holland, England and New York. Picture: Liz Muthoni
Posted Sunday, January 17 2010 at 14:20
The interim EPA was not endorsed by Brussels and the EAC Heads of State Summit because the 25 EU partner states needed to interpret it first.
In December 2008, the interim EPA came back to the EAC with an amendment that the bloc has been opposing — the Most Favoured Nations clause ostensibly meant to give the EU preference over other continents when it came to business deals.
The EAC remains opposed to the clause and has demanded it be removed arguing that it should be defined to indicate that it would apply only when it was cost effective.
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