WITH less than a month to the African Continental Free Trade Area coming into effect, the East African Community submitted its tariff offer on December 3, beating the December 5 deadline.
EAC’s tariff offer now brings the number of countries to 40 that are ready to join the continent-wide duty-free quota-free movement of goods on January 1, when trading under the AfCFTA agreement starts.
By press time on Friday, 14 countries that had signed the agreement had not yet submitted their tariff offers. These are Algeria, Angola, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Libya, Morocco, Mozambique, Saharawi Republic, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia and Zimbabwe.
“EAC has submitted both the tariff offers and schedule of commitments on trade in services,” Kenneth Bagamuhunda, the EAC director general of Trade and Customs, told The EastAfrican.
The EAC had missed previous deadlines as the bloc was putting together its offer that addresses the trading regimes of different
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