As a young graduate, when I was being introduced into the circles of trade and tax, my CEO then, Kaushik Shah made me attend some of the key meetings at the Kenya Association of Manufacturers and I would later grow to chair a sub-committee on regional trading bloc configuration and a member of the coveted Trade and Tax committee. This was at the peak of the negotiation of the Protocol establishing the East Africa Community Customs Union and I spent quite some time in the corridors in Arusha, during these negotiations, as part of the delegation representing the interest of the private sector in Kenya. In addition, what a difficult negotiation it was especially on getting convergence amongst the 3 founding partner states on Common…
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