The East African Community Participating as a Bloc in World Trade Organization Negotiations: Prospects and Challenges
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Date
2015Author
M'mbetsa, Jessica N
Type
ThesisLanguage
enMetadata
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The East African legislative Assembly passed the East African Trade negotiations Act in the year
2008. The Act has its major objective as ensuring that the East African Partner states carry out
their trade negotiations at a regional and multilateral level jointly. Moreover, all the East African
Partner States are members of the World Trade Organisation. However, in spite of the objectives
of the Act, the partner states of the East African Community still carry out their trade
negotiations individually. This study is therefore an in depth analysis of the process of ensuring
that the EAC partner states carry out trade negotiations at the WTO jointly as a regional bloc and
the extent to which the East African Community through its customs union, can review its legal
regime and reform its institutions to facilitate the same.
The methodology adopted into researching into this topic is based on analysis of the Act, rules,
reports, books, articles, journals and online resources.
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University of Nairobi