East Africa: Bureaucracy Hurting Regional Trade, Says Market Report

Strict control of the movement of food items across borders is undermining efforts by East African countries to even out regional trade and build a monetary union.

The high quality thresholds, tedious documentation and open corruption at official border crossing points are blocking movement of cheap foodstuff from surplus areas to deficit regions, market report indicates.

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