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A One-Stop-Border Post (OSBP) managed by Kenya and Uganda has been established at Malaba to ease traffic congestion. Clearance for long-haul trucks carrying goods across the border ias expected to take six hours compared to when vehicles had to wait six days for clearance.
In Uganda, the crisis is expected to ease only after the first phase 50MW Bujagali hydropower project begins operation. Recently Kenya Power released a countrywide power-rationing schedule, due to a shortfall of between 70MW and 90MW a day. Tanzania has energy demand close to 900 MW capacity, but produces less than 800 MW.
The Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) has put a modern system at the Dar es Salaam port that has seen days to clear cargo from South Africa going down to seven from 14 some years back.
Kigali says the EAC's common external tariff (CET) of 25 per cent and VAT of 18 per cent on sugar from outside the region has crippled the capacity of its sugar traders to create the commercial relationships
| Surface area (incl. water): | 1.82 million sq. km |
| Population (2010): | 133.1 million |
| GDP (current prices): | $79.2 billion |
| Av. GDP per capita: | $685 |
| Source: EAC Facts & Figures Report (2011) | |
Rules of OriginThe purpose of these Rules is to implement the provisions of Article 14 of the Protocol and to ensure that there is uniformity among Partner States in the application of... |
Customs Union ProtocolPursuant to the provisions of Article 75 of the Treaty for the Establishment of the EAC,CCustoms Union establishment provisions. |
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