Tanzania Yachomoa Kusaini Mkataba wa EPA

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[Geza Ulole]

Good move for Tanzania, signing EPA agreement with the EU for the sake of rescuing Kenya's 500,000€ worth flower industry is stupidity of highest order considering the fact Kenya is a middle income not supposed to get benefits of Least Development Countries!

Tanzania can not compromise multibilion projects by Chinese by offering free market to the EU that offers nothing in returns to access that same market! Afterall the UK the largest EA trading market is exiting the EU block.

Lets stay out n see how Kenya's desperation will save the day as far as her prospects r concerned! I see big conspiracy on the part of the EU!

 

[MOTOCHINI]

Marais watakutana Dar
Ngoja tuone hili litazungumziwa au la.
Tanzania sio dampo la Wanafiki kamwe

 

[Geza Ulole]

MOTOCHINI, ukweli ni kwamba ubinafsi wa Kenya unataka kudhoofisha jumuiya kama si kuivunja kama 1977! Kenya ni middle income na haipaswi kung'ang'aniza other 5 EA members ku-sign the EPA wakati all but arms agreement ipo for them! Rwanda itakuwa imehongwa na isitoshe has nothing to lose unlike $11 bln worth of project plus EPZs plus supporting infrastructure at $15 bln investment by Chinese in Tanzania to the EU block that wants 90% of her export to enter the region free of tarrifs!

 

[Crocodiletooth]

EPA,MKATABA HUU UNASEMA NINI ?/

 

[Geza Ulole]

Tena vizuri Kenyatta hatakuwapo Dar!

 

[MK254]

Mbona mtasaini tu hatimaye, huu mchezo hautaki hasira. Keti chini upewe darasa jinsi ngoma inachezwa.

- EAC’s best trade negotiators have handled this discussion for 14 years.
- EPA does not liberalise agriculture, which we all knows covers for 80% of our economic activities
- They also settled for rules of origin that benefit countries depending on their level of development

Kuna mengi ya kujadili humo, muache kujificha nyuma ya kijisababu cha Brexit.

 

[DON SINYORI]

strategic move.lets wait n see

 

[Nkobhe]

Dr Magufuri anatakiwa akomae tuuu hakuna kusaini hiii move walio aache wasaini tuuu

 

[Konda wa bodaboda]

Big up Comrade Mahiga.

 

[Ta-kibombo]

Hatupelekwi kama manyumbu sahivi.

 

[Passer by]

Hivi niulize,ikiwa other members watasain except TZ,kenya hawtaweza kufanya biashra na EU kama wanavyotaka?

 

[Geza Ulole]

Tanzania urges delay to regional trade deal with EU, says won't sign
08.09.2016 | REUTERS
Tanzania said it would not sign a regional trade deal with the European Union due to come into effect by October 1, and urged neighbouring countries to back a delay pending discussions on its effect on the region's manufacturing sector.

The summit will be chaired by Tanzanian president John Magufuli (pictured) and Rwandan president Paul Kagame and Uganda's Yoweri Museveni will attend, Tanzania's foreign affairs ministry said on Wednesday. File photo
Photograph by: Reuters/Sadi Said Via The Conversation

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Kenya and Rwanda signed the deal earlier this month, but it needs approval from all members of the East African Community bloc - which also includes Burundi and Uganda - to take effect.

The trade deal with the European Union gives EAC member states duty- and quota-free access for their goods to the EU as long as they meet the set health and safety standards.

But Tanzania's Minister of Foreign Affairs Augustine Mahiga, describing the EU as an "industrial giant", said fledgling industries in his country would not be able to cope with zero-rated imports of European goods.

"Tanzania will not sign the economic partnership agreement (EPA) until several issues are addressed," Mahiga told journalists in Dar es Salaam.

EAC member states initialled an interim EPA deal in 2007 and another in 2014. Governments were given two years from the October 2014 agreement to ratify the deal in national parliaments.

South Sudan, which joined the bloc this year, was not part of initial negotiations of the deal, which started in 2002.

Kenya stands to lose the most without the deal signed, as other member states - including Tanzania, Burundi, Uganda - would still continue getting duty- and quota-free access under EU's Everything But Arms initiative since they are classified as Least Developed Countries.

"If the EPA is not signed and ratified by all EAC partner states by Sept. 30, 2016, Kenya stands to lose its market to the EU, having significant impact on her economy," Kenya's Trade and Industrialisation Ministry said in a statement late last week.

Governments in the region are also anxious to ensure that exports such as tea and fresh flowers, which are major sources of foreign exchange, are not hampered by any tariffs on trade with Britain after it leaves the European Union.

Mahiga said Tanzania would urge regional leaders on Thursday to delay the signing of the deal at an EAC heads of state summit in Dar es Salaam to give more time for the bloc to renegotiate the agreement with the EU.

The summit will be chaired by Tanzanian president John Magufuli and Rwandan president Paul Kagame and Uganda's Yoweri Museveni will attend, Tanzania's foreign affairs ministry said on Wednesday.

The presidents of Kenya and Burundi will send representatives to the meeting, Tanzanian officials said.

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[Geza Ulole]

Tanzania Seeks EAC Delay Signing European Union Trade Pact
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September 7, 2016 — 4:29 PM CEST
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• Individual signing by Kenya, Rwanda is ‘insignificant’
• Nation also wants revisions to regional customs union

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Tanzania wants the six-nation East African Community bloc to delay signing a trade agreement with the European Union to consider the impact the treaty may have on their economies.

The countries have been negotiating the so-called Economic Partnership Agreement, or EPA, with the European Union since 2002, a pact that will give it duty- and quota-free access for produce including flowers, fruit and vegetables. The EAC groups Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan.

East African presidents are scheduled to meet on Thursday in Tanzania to discuss the agreement before a Oct. 1 deadline. Rwanda and Kenya initialed the EPA in Brussels last week, a move Tanzania’s Foreign Affairs Minister Augustine Mahiga said was “insignificant” as all nations had to be on board for the treaty to take effect.

“Signing individually violates the EAC treaty because it requires such trade agreements to be signed as a bloc,” Mahiga told reporters in the commercial capital, Dar es Salaam. “Our friends have signed, but they know it won’t take them far. Without the bloc, you are putting the cart before the horse.”

Tanzania wants the EAC to consider the impact the EPA may have on the region’s weak manufacturing base and to discuss the bloc’s customs union, Mahiga said. Kenya is the only nation that stands to lose access to Europe because it isn’t grouped among the Least Developed Countries. The others can continue exporting to the bloc under a separate Everything But Arms treaty for LDCs.

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Burundi has already signaled it won’t sign, citing EU sanctions, while South Sudan is yet to gain full membership in the bloc. Uganda is expected to commit to the treaty at the summit on Thursday, Nairobi-based Business Daily reported on Monday, without saying how it got the information. Mahiga said Uganda was willing to sign as a bloc.

“Fourteen years to-date, there have been changes in the EAC and the EU,” Mahiga said. “We are of the position that these changes be accommodated. We want more time.”

Tanzania also wants Britain’s exit from the EU to be considered as the nation is a major trading partner of East African countries. It would like provisions in the EAC treaty and customs union that will be affected by the EPA reviewed, a process that will probably take less than a year, Mahiga said.

“The kind of rigidity which is in the customs union and the treaty is to be revisited,” he said. “I think that is the way forward.”

Tanzania Seeks EAC Delay Signing European Union Trade Pact

MY TAKE
Kenya's propaganda at play, reminded of a pipeline row!


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[Barbarosa]

Mbona mtasaini tu hatimaye, huu mchezo hautaki hasira. Keti chini upewe darasa jinsi ngoma inachezwa.

- EAC’s best trade negotiators have handled this discussion for 14 years.
- EPA does not liberalise agriculture, which we all knows covers for 80% of our economic activities
- They also settled for rules of origin that benefit countries depending on their level of development

Kuna mengi ya kujadili humo, muache kujificha nyuma ya kijisababu cha Brexit.

Ninaweza kukubalina na wewe kuhusu sisi mwishowe kusaini lkn sababu siyo hizo ulizozielezea, bali sababu ni kwamba Wazungu wanashinikiza nchi zinazoendela kusaini EPA na hiki ndicho kilichotokea Kenya, kwa maana Kenya mara ya kwanza walikataa kusaini wakatishiwa na kushinikizwa wakaufyata, sasa hata Rwanda na Uganda ambao mwanzoni waligoma pia wametishiwa na Wazungu hivyo nina wasi wasi na Tanzania yetu pia shinikizo litakuwa kubwa sana kwa Serikali yetu na mwishowe wakasaini kwani kuna sababu kwa nini Kagame na Museveni wako Dar sasa hivi ikumbukwe kwamba hawa ni vibaraka wakubwa sana wa Wazungu, hivyo wanaweza kumtisha Raisi Magufuli kuanzia Museveni kusitisha Bomba la Mafuta mpaka Rwanda kujitoa kwenye SGR project yetu yote haya yanawezekana!

Lakini swali langu, ni kwa nini Wazungu wanshinikiza nchi kusaini kama kweli ni jambo jema kwetu? Ni kwa nini sisi wenyewe tusione kwamba ni jambo jema na kuamua kusaini? Ni kwanini watulazimishe?

 

[Geza Ulole]

Ninaweza kukubalina na wewe kuhusu sisi mwishowe kusaini lkn sababu siyo hizo ulizozielezea, bali sababu ni kwamba Wazungu wanashinikiza nchi zinazoendela kusaini EPA na hiki ndicho kilichotokea Kenya, kwa maana Kenya mara ya kwanza walikataa kusaini wakatishiwa na kushinikizwa wakaufyata, sasa hata Rwanda na Uganda ambao mwanzoni waligoma pia wametishiwa na Wazungu hivyo nina wasi wasi na Tanzania yetu pia shinikizo litakuwa kubwa sana kwa Serikali yetu na mwishowe wakasaini kwani kuna sababu kwa nini Kagame na Museveni wako Dar sasa hivi ikumbukwe kwamba hawa ni vibaraka wakubwa sana wa Wazungu, hivyo wanaweza kumtisha Raisi Magufuli kuanzia Museveni kusitisha Bomba la Mafuta mpaka Rwanda kujitoa kwenye SGR project yetu yote haya yanawezekana!

Lakini swali langu, ni kwa nini Wazungu wanshinikiza nchi kusaini kama kweli ni jambo jema kwetu? Ni kwa nini sisi wenyewe tusione kwamba ni jambo jema na kuamua kusaini? Ni kwanini watulazimishe?

si kweli kwamba Uganda watasaini huo ni uwongo wa media za Kenya! Hamna media za Uganda zilizoandika ukiacha zile za Nationmedia!

 

[Barbarosa]

si kweli kwamba Uganda watasaini huo ni uwongo wa media za Kenya!

Sasa kwanini Museveni yuko Dar? Uganda ni lazima watasaini kama bado hawajafanya hivyo lkn siyo kwa sababu ya Kenya, Hapana bali ni kwa sababu ya kushinikizwa na Wazungu, Wazungu ndiyo wanataka hii EPA klk mtu mwingine yoyote yule na kwa vile Museveni kama vile Kagame ni kibaraka wa Wazungu hawezi kuwagomea kwani wanaweza kumgeuka na kumsapoti Besigye na huo ukawa mwisho wa Museveni!

 

[Barbarosa]

Hiki kinaitwa kikao cha dharura, cha kujiuliza ni kwa nini kiwe cha dharura? Hapo ni lazima Raisi Magufuli aseme HAPANA, sisi hatutaki EPA!

 

[Konda wa bodaboda]

Ninaweza kukubalina na wewe kuhusu sisi mwishowe kusaini lkn sababu siyo hizo ulizozielezea, bali sababu ni kwamba Wazungu wanashinikiza nchi zinazoendela kusaini EPA na hiki ndicho kilichotokea Kenya, kwa maana Kenya mara ya kwanza walikataa kusaini wakatishiwa na kushinikizwa wakaufyata, sasa hata Rwanda na Uganda ambao mwanzoni waligoma pia wametishiwa na Wazungu hivyo nina wasi wasi na Tanzania yetu pia shinikizo litakuwa kubwa sana kwa Serikali yetu na mwishowe wakasaini kwani kuna sababu kwa nini Kagame na Museveni wako Dar sasa hivi ikumbukwe kwamba hawa ni vibaraka wakubwa sana wa Wazungu, hivyo wanaweza kumtisha Raisi Magufuli kuanzia Museveni kusitisha Bomba la Mafuta mpaka Rwanda kujitoa kwenye SGR project yetu yote haya yanawezekana!

Lakini swali langu, ni kwa nini Wazungu wanshinikiza nchi kusaini kama kweli ni jambo jema kwetu? Ni kwa nini sisi wenyewe tusione kwamba ni jambo jema na kuamua kusaini? Ni kwanini watulazimishe?

Kagame na Museven wakija Tanzania kuzungumzia EPA ni vizuri Dr. Mahiga akapewa nafasi ya kumuwakilisha rais maana yuko vizuri sana kwenye diplomasia.

 

[Geza Ulole]

Kagame na Museven wakija Tanzania kuzungumzia EPA ni vizuri Dr. Mahiga akapewa nafasi ya kumuwakilisha rais maana yuko vizuri sana kwenye diplomasia.

Ila Kagame anaonyesha unafiki hajaweka sababu za kusaini EPA! Hamna kitu kinachomfanya alazimike kusaini kama Kenya unless kahongwa!