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    "id": 369483,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Laboso",
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        "legal_name": "Joyce Cherono Laboso",
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    "content": "I am just finishing. Give me two minutes and then I will conclude. So, I have just given you list of countries which I have said have signed the EPAs but have not taken the necessary steps to ratify and implement their respective agreements. So, what I am saying is: Yes, we need to sign an EPA but we are saying let us not sign it in its current form as it is giving us undue advantage over products coming from the EU into our market. We are also saying that the impact of being removed will differ from country to country. Remember we said that after the end of 2014, we will be removed from the market access into European markets and the impact of being removed from that market access regulation would be different for the various countries. Everybody will have different impacts. This is because as I said earlier, in the East African Community (EAC) it is only Kenya that does not belong to the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and, therefore, will be impacted by not signing it. Even if all the other East African countries do not sign, there will be no problem because they belong to LDCs and, therefore, will still have ability to access the European markets because of what I earlier alluded to; everything but arms. Hon. Speaker, Sir, so, really what I am saying is that we need to ask our Government to look critically because what we want to save is our local industries and we want to stop an agreement that brings a flood of products from the EU that are going to definitely cost a lot less because of the subsidies that are given to their markets, farmers and manufacturers in their countries. Hon. Speaker, Sir, so, I want to leave it there because of time and ask the Member for Ugenya who is a member of the Committee on Regional Integration to second."
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