{"id":486219,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/486219/?format=json","text_counter":340,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. (Ms.) Kajuju","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":840,"legal_name":"Florence Kajuju","slug":"florence-kajuju"},"content":"report of the Committee on Communications, Trade and Investments on the on-spot assessment of the East African Community (EAC) Single Customs Territory. The EAC has embarked on improving efficient trade facilitation systems in a bid to implement the Customs Union Protocol. Under such a system as the Single Customs Territory the member states are required to adopt a destination model of clearance of imports. This is where the assessment and collection of tax revenues will be done at the first point of entry."}