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    "content": "The EU considerably subsidizes both their manufacturing and their value addition and we are aware of that. That makes their products extremely competitive anywhere globally. They give subsidies to their farmers and manufacturers. Our goods cannot compete fairly with the EU products in our market if we open the free tariff to EU products. If we allow Economic Partnership Agreements in their current form, we might as well actually be writing obituaries to our renowned local manufacturers like Universal Cooperation, Sameer Group of Companies, Haco Industries and Forever Living. All these are local products that when you go into supermarkets you are buying Kenyan products. What we are saying is if you visit a supermarket in countries such as Togo, Benin, Sierra Leone, it is almost like being in a supermarket in Europe because all their products come from the European Union (EU). We are saying we have to protect our local manufacturing industries so that we avoid buying European goods. This is because we know that in Kenya you go into a supermarket and you will be using products that literally are actually manufactured here in our country."
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