EAC Common Market Call for Action
Strengthening EAC Market prior to Africa Free Continental Trade Area (AfCTA)- The article generated by ChatGPT
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and the East African Community (EAC) share many common goals and objectives, such as promoting economic integration across Africa in order to boost development. The AfCFTA is a continental agreement aiming at creating an inclusive trade zone that reduces barriers between member countries by consolidating tariffs, removing non-tariff measures and reducing service sector restrictions.
Additionally, this platform will increase the capacity of production for goods within the continent itself. On the other hand, EAC focuses on fostering collaboration among members through initiatives like facilitating better market access specialized technical expertise as well as support from research institutions and national policies to ensure effective governance systems are adopted regionally within East Africa and more importantly ensure sustainable socio-economic development for its members.
Thus providing great potential for investment into this part of Africa with available resources which can be shared amongst all partners. While both platforms may differ in detail they aim towards one goal: developing peaceable societies in accordance with international law grounded upon principles of prosperity throughout Eastern & Central Africa while simultaneously increasing the size of relative markets giving businesses worldwide the opportunity to tap into their incredible resource base efficiently.
The East African Community (EAC) is a regional economic block consisting of seven (7) member countries: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Congo and South Sudan (EAC, 2022). The primary goal of the EAC is to improve livelihoods by increasing trade linkages within the region in order to promote regional integration. This is done through policies such as tariff reductions on imports from other EAC nations and closer cooperation between member states in areas such as customs systems, infrastructure development and financial regulations.
In June 2019, leaders from all 6 countries signed an agreement that would launch the East African Common Market for goods and services — an ambitious undertaking which will create opportunities for increased business collaboration among members of this vast trading block with nearly 150 million people. However, despite these efforts, there has been far less progress than expected towards achieving full market access since the declaration was signed due to persistent regulatory challenges facing businesses across borders.
Some include lengthy approval processes when attempting to obtain export licenses or work permits; delays at custom clearance points; lack of harmonization amongst national standards & certification procedures, high taxes/tariffs imposed on certain imported commodities etc. All these hurdles are proving costly not just fiscally but also prohibitively slowing down international exchange & career prospects so vital for meaningful socio-economic growth throughout the region.
The rising unemployment rate coupled with decreasing standard wages is indicative evidence that whatever measures taken thus far have failed short in tapping into EAC’s promising potential waiting yet unearthed!
Therefore it is more important now than ever before that governments resolve discrepancies between domestic laws inhibiting inter-regional movement along key logistics chain links while simultaneously helping enterprises aware their awareness regarding numerous benefits associated with doing so especially small & medium-scale ones that had up until recently found themselves too vulnerable to utilize many techniques available only by affiliated companies leveraging size advantage*.
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