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Comment on Q&A: EAC Director General (Customs and Trade) on the Fully Fledged Customs Union by Editor

Editor — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:38:30 +0000

Dirk, the EAC Common Market in summary means free movement of goods, services and persons. Can the EAC Common Market be compared to the EU’s single market? Not quite, because the EAC’s is much younger, and single markets are processes. Things get refined as we move along, not in one event. Your question on vehicle imports doesn’t provide the full details of your experience, but the 2-week time limit for temporary importation you were granted does indeed conform to EAC standards.

Comment on Q&A: EAC Director General (Customs and Trade) on the Fully Fledged Customs Union by Dirk

Dirk — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:20:28 +0000

Dear EAC,

what exactly does EAC’s common market mean? Can ut be compared to the EU’s market?

Just think about Rwanda’s strict vehicle import rules. The temporary allowance is 2 weeks. Is this conform to EAC?

thanks

Comment on Q&A: EAC Director General (Customs and Trade) on the Fully Fledged Customs Union by ssekalo

ssekalo — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 08:01:23 +0000

Dear Apollinaire, kindly note that as of 17 March 2010, Burundians are not required to pay for visas to enter Tanzanian territory. You may visit the EAC Tourism/Travel website (http://www.eac.int/travel) for details

Comment on Welcome to EAC Blogs by ssekalo

ssekalo — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 07:08:30 +0000

Dear Manirakiza. Most of the EAC documents at the moment are in English, because that is recognised as the official language of the Community by the EAC Treaty. However there have been proposals to have the Treaty amended to include French as the other official language. There is an ongoing project to create a Kiswahili-version of the Treaty. At the moment however most translations of EAC publications into any other language are done at Partner State level, by ministries responsible for EAC affairs. Please get in touch with your Ministry of EAC in Bujumbura.

Comment on Q&A: EAC Director General (Customs and Trade) on the Fully Fledged Customs Union by DONALD KIBOI

DONALD KIBOI — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:04:12 +0000

I’m a Kenyan working in the transport industry,kindly advise why are still having internal border points e.g Namanga,Sirare e.t.c yet we are supposed to be one big customs union,i direct your attention to the European Union which has no internal borders except external.

Comment on Q&A: EAC Director General (Customs and Trade) on the Fully Fledged Customs Union by DONALD KIBOI

DONALD KIBOI — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:58:17 +0000

Dear Sir,

I’m a Kenyan who has been following the intergration process with a lot of anxiety,but it fails short of our expectations.
1.Please explain will the bordes still exist,i draw your attention to the European Union where they have no borders especially the E.U members.
2. Will the customs union have single entry points i.e if a Ugandan/Rwandan imports something and it passes through Mombasa will that Ugandan be forced to execute a transit bond or will he pay all duties at Mombasa since he is already an East African citizen and it is deemed that we are one community.
Rgds
D.Kiboi

Comment on Welcome to EAC Blogs by Aidan

Aidan — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:38:00 +0000

Hello Blogmaster and Webmaster!

Hongera to you and the entire EAC web team. The new website is just fantastic! Its layout and content are brilliant and very, very useful indeed. one challenge: when will the Kiswahili version of the website be ready?

I am a very committed East African and I follow the development around regional integration with a huge amount of interest. Thanks to your website, I was able to download and browse the Common Market protocol and its various annexes. I have aquestions (which is probably not for the blog, but maybe you can help either forward it to the right place/person, or better yet, provide an answer which is of general interest:

1. Annex III (Right of Establishment), regulation 9, paragraph 3, page 6 seems to have an incomplete sentence.

2. Annex III (Right of Establishment), regulation 10, paragraph 2 requires the removal of ‘administrative’ restrictions, BUT paragraph 3 talks about ‘restrictions’ needing to be listed and submitted to the Council. Are these other ‘restrictions’ of a ‘legal’ nature? Administrative? Its not clear in the Annex, which opens up room for discretionary interpretation by obstructionists to make life difficult.

I’d appreciate any guidance you may be able to procure for us.

Asante sana!

Comment on About by charles ntezahorigwa

charles ntezahorigwa — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:46:42 +0000

Dear Haruna,

my view is that rome was not build in one day. let us go slowly but surely. our governments are too selfish to accept that idea , but only on paper.

what we need now is good governance where states respect their own laws and people and we are far from this.

a big state is a bad idea if each one is not well runned.
charles

Comment on Welcome to EAC Blogs by Bziegnew Mugogo

Bziegnew Mugogo — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:27:16 +0000

EAC need to do more on trade and social development ie movements, remove all the restrictions, on the residents of the states,outside trasde to be done as a bloc, that way we the eac have greater leverage on trade talks and investments in the region.
its a good organization,
that will eveolve for better economic goods, all member states to disregard Nile treaty with unity, let egypt and sudan iniciate the talk, they have to share the conservations costs forests and ecosystem around the Lake.

Bziegnew Mugogo

Alask – USA

Comment on About by norberto

norberto — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:27:48 +0000

@ naturinda harunda

well, just have a look to the european community. everybody feels proud to be part of it, but everybody feels in his own nationality. to unify people, this will take generations. means – have patience and start traveling.

norberto
http://www.chartereventos.com