{"id":6415,"date":"2024-07-18T15:31:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T13:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/?p=6415"},"modified":"2024-07-18T15:31:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T13:31:55","slug":"kenya-free-trade-agreement-entered-into-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/en\/kenya-free-trade-agreement-entered-into-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya &#8211; Free trade agreement entered into force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EU&#8217;s bilateral Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Kenya entered into force on 1 July 2024. Common rules of origin are still being negotiated. After being signed in December 2023, the EPA between the EU and Kenya entered into force on 1st July 2024. It guarantees Kenya&#8217;s exports (except arms) continued and now permanent duty-free and quota-free access to the European market. In return, Kenya will gradually liberalise its market in three stages over 25 years for a total of 82.6 percent of the value of imports from the EU. The tariff dismantling will begin seven years after the EPA enters into force on 1 July 2031<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gtai.de\/de\/trade\/kenia\/zoll\/freihandelsabkommen-zwischen-der-eu-und-kenia-tritt-in-kraft-1795270\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More details (German language only)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/legal-content\/EN\/TXT\/?uri=OJ%3AL_202401648\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To the Agreement<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU&#8217;s bilateral Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Kenya entered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kenya - Free trade agreement entered into force - Nicola Bernard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/en\/kenya-free-trade-agreement-entered-into-force\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kenya - Free trade agreement entered into force - Nicola Bernard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The EU&#8217;s bilateral Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Kenya entered [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/en\/kenya-free-trade-agreement-entered-into-force\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nicola Bernard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-07-18T13:31:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/kenya-Flagge-Pixabay162332_1920.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"nicola.bernard\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"nicola.bernard\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/en\/kenya-free-trade-agreement-entered-into-force\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/en\/kenya-free-trade-agreement-entered-into-force\/\",\"name\":\"Kenya - Free trade agreement entered into force - Nicola Bernard\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/en\/kenya-free-trade-agreement-entered-into-force\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/en\/kenya-free-trade-agreement-entered-into-force\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/kenya-Flagge-Pixabay162332_1920.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-07-18T13:31:55+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/7a09693188c7e9880d798b5b412350a4\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/en\/kenya-free-trade-agreement-entered-into-force\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/en\/kenya-free-trade-agreement-entered-into-force\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/kenya-Flagge-Pixabay162332_1920.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/kenya-Flagge-Pixabay162332_1920.png\",\"width\":1920,\"height\":1280,\"caption\":\"Image source: Pixabay\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/en\/\",\"name\":\"Nicola Bernard\",\"description\":\"Serviceb\u00fcro f. 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