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    "id": 1157184,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1157184/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
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        "legal_name": "Emmanuel Wangwe",
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    "content": "(e) To facilitate coordination and partnerships among the departments responsible for customs, other relevant government ministries, departments or trade agencies and industry players dealing with trade and trade facilitation. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, without any hint of doubt, this Bill intends to improve and harmonise an area of law that is skewed and that is causing lags and delays in the ports of entry. The Bill requires the Government to co-operate with the agencies concerned in respect of the following: Making and conducting service level agreements; digitising, underlining of internal operations; registration for use of the electronic systems; payment of fees and levies approved by the Cabinet Secretary; and lastly, entry and operations and generation of received data, among other aspects. This Bill is focused on trade facilitation. There is plethora of literature that captures the importance of trade and its effects on economic growth. Trade allows countries to specialise; enables technologies, know-how and ideas to spread; promotes competition and economies of scale. Such factors contribute to boosting innovation and productivity which fosters economic growth. Trade has been credited to have contributed to the reduction of global extreme poverty between 1990 and 2015. This has been achieved through globalisation and easing of trade relations between economies. It is in this similar version that this Bill aims at enhancing the efficiency of electronic transactions as far as international trade is concerned. This Bill aims to create harmony among trade facilitation organs in Kenya, including clearing and forwarding agents; custom services department; Kenya Ports Authority, among others. In this respect, I urge Members to review this Bill with a fine tooth-comb to appreciate its intent and purpose. I beg to move and ask the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Trade, Industry and Co-operatives, Hon. Aden, to second. Thank you."
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