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    "id": 1512871,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Embakasi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. James Gakuya",
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    "content": " Thank you for the opportunity to reply on this Report regarding the unfair trade practices between foreigners and our local traders. I thank Members of the Departmental Committee on Trade, Industry and Cooperatives who took time to listen to the views of traders, including the Ministry and stakeholders of the sector. I also thank Members of this House who have contributed to this Report. As I reply, I take concern that there has been unfair trade between local traders and foreign traders.This is especially those who trade products from China. Most Chinese traders have gone down from being dealers of businesses. They have trickled down to being retailers and even hawkers. That makes business so tedious to local traders. As much as we have liberalised our trade, it is important to make some consideration of protecting the interests of our indigenous traders considering that every other country protects its local domestic traders. We listened to presentations of local traders and other stakeholders. It seems our laws have a gap in protecting our local traders. Chinese traders get cheaply priced products directly from manufacturers in their country while there are caveats on our local traders who bring commodities from China. As we listened to traders, we realised there is a law in China that prohibits our traders from engaging manufacturers directly. Those who belong to China can get materials or products directly from manufacturers. Therefore, it becomes difficult for our traders to bring their commodities here. It becomes stiff competition between the Chinese and our local traders. This creates a big gap in The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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