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“Associated Battery Manufacturing EA Ltd is the first Kenyan company to start trading under the African Continental Free Trade Area (“AfCFTA”) Agreement, and the first local company to ever export Exide batteries to the Ghanian market”...
#AfCFTA #tradelaw #covidimpact
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said the Ministry of Industrialisation and Trade in a statement. The Kenyan-made Exide batteries worth KES 9.24 million (USD 77,000) landed in Ghana last week, marking a formal start of preferential trading under the AfCFTA framework.
The consignment by Associated Battery Manufacturing EA Ltd is the clearest indication that Kenya can now access markets in West and Central Africa at preferential rates. [Business Daily article. Read more here bit.ly/3SoNR6q].
🧵Another ICYMI 🚨- Yesterday, DOJ (for USTR) filed its master response to the ~3600 complaints (consolidated) re the #Section301 tariffs imposed as part of what is now seen as a #tradewar w/ #China. The gov lists its anticipated defenses. But 1st, let's review the claims ... /1
Per DOJ, #HMTX and thousands of others make the following claims: 1) promulgation of List 3 and List 4A [the Lists] violated the 1974 Trade Act; 2) the Gov violated the APA in promulgating them; 3) the Lists violated the Constitution; and, 4) the Lists violated the GATT /2
Here are DOJ/USTR's anticipated defenses, abbreviated slightly: 1) USTR was acting @ the direction of POTUS and POTUS not subject to APA; 2) Review of POTUS discretionary decision + USTR’s implementation of it presents a non-justiciable, political question; 3) Even if /3
