Kenya: Govt to Lobby WTO for Freer Trade in Services

1 September 2015

Kenya will use the December World Trade Organisation's ministerial conference in Nairobi to push for global liberalisation of trade in services, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Cabinet secretary Amina Mohamed said yesterday.

She said time has come for the 161-member states WTO to lead the process of opening up the services sector, just like it is doing for trade in goods, to ease rising costs especially for developing countries like Kenya.

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