6 African States Revise Import Duties
The East African Community introduced several revisions to its import duty measures, including “duty remissions” for industrial imports and tariff exemptions on a range of medical goods, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council said in a July 22 report. The…
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measures also allow EAC member states -- Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda -- to impose higher duty rates on garments, textiles, leather products, metal products, meat and tea imports to protect domestic production against cheaper imports. Member states can also issue “stays” of the EAC’s common external tariff application, which allow the states to defer imposing the CET rates for one year.