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    "content": "Region on the contentious aspects of the EPAs, including offering undue advantage to products from other markets at the expense of growth of local and regional industries; further taking cognisance of the adverse effects that the EPAs are projected to have on Kenya’s economy, particularly on agriculture and manufacturing sectors; aware of an amendment to the European Union’s Market Access Regulations (1528 of 2007), whose effect is that the 18 countries which have not signed or ratified the full EPAs, most of which are in Sub-Sahara Africa, Kenya included, will henceforth be removed from duty-free, quota-free access to the EU Markets; further aware that once removed, Kenyan products will from October 2014 cease to enjoy the duty-free, quota-free tariffs in the EU market, and that the national economy is estimated to lose more than Kshs10 billion in that year alone, this House resolves that the Government does not sign the Economic Partnership Agreements in their current form until all outstanding issues, especially the Most Favoured Nation, Export Taxes and Development clauses as raised by the East African Community and Kenya in particular, are conclusively addressed, and that the Government continues to explore more beneficial trade negotiations with the European Union."
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