Kenya: Kenya and United Arab Emirates signed the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement

On 14 January 2025, the Governments of the Republic of Kenya and the United Arab Emirates signed the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) in Abu Dhabi. The CEPA includes provisions on trade in goods, rules of origin, customs procedures and trade facilitation, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, technical barriers to trade, trade remedies, investment, digital trade, government procurement, intellectual property rights, small and medium-sized enterprises, economic cooperation, dispute settlement, general and security exceptions, institutional arrangements, and final provisions. Market access provisions on tariff liberalisation are not included in the Agreement and will be negotiated separately between the United Arab Emirates and the East African Community Partner States.