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    "id": 749171,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mbui",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Robert Mbui",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Governor. Sorry, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to contribute on the Kenya Trade Remedies Bill, 2017 by my colleague and friend, the Member for Ugenya, David Ochieng. The goal of any Government is to assist its people to have socio-economic development. When we attained our Independence, we set out to eradicate poverty, ignorance and disease. Issues of ignorance are handled by the education policy, issues of disease are under the health sector and issues of poverty are under the trade sector. This Bill basically tries to give solutions to some of the issues that we set out to achieve when we gained Independence from the colonialists. On the trade sector, we have to ensure that we create jobs for our people. How do we create jobs for our people? The most important in which we can do this is by ensuring that our local businesses and industries are protected and they thrive. This Bill seeks to protect local businesses against unfair trade practices. Some of these unfair trade practices are dumping. Dumping is about importing low quality and low value items. We have seen that happen on a regular basis. It is one of the things that the greater nations or the bigger and powerful nations keep on doing because their industries are more developed. All the products they feel are not up to the standards of their citizens are exported to countries that are deemed to be economically inferior. On the issue of subsidisation, governments subsidise the products that are coming out of their countries. When they are subsidised, their value goes down. It then becomes easy for the manufacturers in those countries to export the products to our nations, where unfortunately, our production costs are high. The goods from our industries are extremely expensive. There is also the other practice of excessive imports. This distorts trade imbalances. We also have perception by our citizens that imported products are better than local products. It is very important to ensure that our people are advised and educated on the importance of buying local manufactured goods. When you buy local, you build local. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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