Slow progress on harmonising standards affecting EAC trade

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Cargo trucks from Tanzania ferrying tons of maize await offloading outside the Mombasa Maize Millers Factory in Kenya. PHOTO | KEVIN ODIT | NMG

Failure to harmonise and enact a full standardisation law is affecting intra trade within the East Africa with Uganda on the spot for stalling the enactment of the EAC Standards Act.

The process is also very slow thereby affecting business as more than half the members are yet to meet the threshold required.