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    "id": 1526764,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1526764/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Faki",
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        "id": 13211,
        "legal_name": "Mohamed Faki Mwinyihaji",
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    "content": "Sen. Onyonka, please, you can invite Senator for Busia County for tea. The EPZ Act in Part VIII exempts the EPZ factories from restrictions on import quotas, except for a trade in firearms or military equipment and other illegal activities. This enables the factory operator to import inside an EPZ to have flexibility in the importation of, for instance, tea that is not locally available, but which they will use to blend with the teas that are available in Kenya. Under the Tea Act, 2020, it places the EPZ factories which are doing tea blending and packing under the Tea Board of Kenya (TBK) jurisdiction. Such teas are subjected to very stringent importation rules. For instance, you can only import if it is not available locally. When you import, it is subjected to analysis on 39 parameters at the cost of the importer. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this makes the imported tea for blending very unattractive to our local packers yet we need to do value addition here and blend it with other teas, so that our tea can be competitive and we sell it to the niche markets. So, what is the Ministry doing in order to cure this anomaly so that the EPZs that are doing tea blending are at par with the other EPZs? Thank you."
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