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    "id": 749206,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Makenga",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Makenga Katemi",
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    "content": "unnecessarily compete with our local products. The agency will also be able to create awareness on cheap products that are meant to exploit the local industries. If the proposed Agency works effectively, it will protect local industries and promote job creation. The Government will also benefit through taxation. People tend to think that when jobs are created they only benefit the people who are employed. The Government benefits more because the citizens pay taxes like Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE). If a manufacturing company is established and it employees 1,000 people, there will be cross-cutting benefit because the workers and the Government will benefit from wages and taxation, respectively. There are agencies which are concerned with safeguarding the quality of goods produced locally as well as those which are imported. I have in mind the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS), which is concerned with ensuring that the standards of products brought into the country are maintained. However, KEBS does not have the powers of the Agency that this Bill is seeking to establish. Therefore, once passed into law, the Kenya Trade Remedies Bill will ensure that the work that is not being done by the existing agencies due to lack of powers is done by the proposed Agency. For a very long time, Kenya has been an importing country. Curbing of dumping of cheap goods from abroad will encourage people to come and invest in Kenya and make this country an exporting country. The anti- dumping measures will encourage people to invest in this country and make it an exporting country. That way, the question of trade imbalance will be addressed. This country should also make use of trading blocs such as the East African community (EAC) and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA). If we do that, we will encourage the production of goods locally thus improving inter-trade in our region."
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