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Kenya: Biden Team Set to Review Kenya, Trump Trade Talks
East African, 5 April 2021
The Biden administration will review bilateral trade negotiations and targets that ex-President Donald Trump regime made with Kenya last year over a potential free trading deal. Read more »
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Kenya: Kenya is Determined to Conclude Trade Deal With the U.S., President Kenyatta Says
Capital FM, 20 January 2021
President Uhuru Kenyatta has reiterated Kenya's determination to conclude ongoing negotiations with the United States of America and sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Read more »
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Kenya: Govt to Continue Pursuing Trade Deal With U.S.
Nation, 19 January 2021
Kenya will keep pursuing free trade deal with the United States during Joe Biden's era, President Uhuru Kenyatta said Tuesday. Read more »
Biden Set to Review Kenya's Trump-Era Trade Agreements
The new U.S. administration reportedly wants to ensure the negotiations for a bilateral trade agreement and talks objectives, are consistent with President Joe Biden's U.S.$4 trillion revamp of the American economy, focusing on an industrial policy that will keep an eye on climate change. This means that the start of the trade talks could be delayed and the objectives of the bilateral pact recast, to recognise Biden's agenda with some of the aims of the negotiations set by the former U.S. president Donald Trump administration likely to be dropped. A trade agreement with Kenya, which would be the first U.S. free trade deal in sub-Saharan Africa, comes amid a growing concern about China's investments across Africa. The Biden administration is reportedly seeking to cut China's share of the global trade. Kenya and the US formally launched negotiations in July 2020 for a bilateral trade pact that the two economies hoped could serve as a model for additional agreements across Africa.
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U.S. President Joe Biden's dispatch of a video message to the African Union Summit, and the message's contents, mark a sharp divergence from the approach of former president Donald ... Read more »
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The Trump administration and Kenyan government have launched negotiations for a trade agreement that could be the most significant development in U.S-Africa trade relations since ... Read more »
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The U.S. government has made public a summary of key negotiation points in the proposed bilateral deal, which will see Kenya lift tariffs on all U.S. agricultural products and open ... Read more »
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It is now expected that in the next 30 days, the U.S. trade representative's office will publish a notice in the Federal Register, requesting the public's input on the direction, ... Read more »
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Completion of a bilateral trade pact between the two nations could reportedly bring major benefits to Kenya's economy and enhance the nation's political standing in Africa and ... Read more »
President Uhuru Kenyatta and former U.S. president Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, DC during an official visit on August 27, 2018 (file photo).
