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"speaker_name": "Mr. Omingo",
"speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Trade",
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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, regarding AGOA as it was said here earlier, we have the opportunity to explore that market. But out of 6,900 items, we do not take advantage of more than 20 items. It is time that we also woke up and showed leadership by directing our people to take advantage so that they can create wealth. More often than not, let us also encourage people to move out there and start investing in a small way. Let us put them together in groups like women groups to be able to get artifacts and fill a container to export to the European and United States of America (USA) markets. It is time that we, in the East African region forced that kind of interactive ability to be able to do intra-African trade. We heard the Secretary of State of USA mentioning that we deal within ourselves in a very small way. It is true that in an African context, an export is not an export until you export to Europe. You are not exporting unless you are paid in Euros or Dollars. I think we must change our mindset. Today, the African foreign exchange cumulative staff in every other respective jurisdiction is a total of US$650 billion. If we were starting small, from EAC, for example, grow to COMESA, then have an African Union where we have a single bank"
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