{"id":481,"date":"2013-11-05T09:44:10","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T08:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/blogs\/english\/?p=481"},"modified":"2013-11-05T09:44:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T08:44:10","slug":"the-single-customs-territory-inside-eac-in-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/the-single-customs-territory-inside-eac-in-process\/","title":{"rendered":"The single Customs Territory inside EAC in process"},"content":{"rendered":"

This 30th October 2013, a press conference has been held, in the Ministry in Charge of East African Community Affairs, to inform Burundians about the achievements and challenges Burundi should overcome for an effective EAC customs union implementation. –<\/strong>By Lorraine-Josiane Manishatse<\/em><\/p>\n

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Presenters in the Press Conference\u00a9Iwacu<\/p><\/div>\n

Since 1st July 2009 when Burundi has joined the EAC customs union protocol, important progress has already been made even though there are still some challenges. \u201cSingle post border offices have been created, non-tariff barriers have been eliminated (though there are some which are to be abolished), the Common External Tariffs in the community have been adopted and implemented, ICT( Information Communication Technology) Customs reform systems have been put in place \u2026 Negotiations on the single territory customs system are in progress but its feasibility encounters some challenges which should be identified in time,\u201d indicates Pierre Claver Rurakamvye, the Managing Director for infrastructure and Economic Affairs in the Ministry in charge of Burundi integration in East African Community. He points out that Customs Union consists of creating a regional economic block characterized by a free movement of goods. Thanks to that Customs union, the population, entrepreneurs, investors benefit more.
\n\u201cThere has been a reduction of customs duty; consequently, the number f trucks which transport goods from EAC countries have now increased because they no longer spend a long time on the way. Goods from EAC countries are abundant on Burundi markets,\u201d he states.
\nFor him, the main objective of the customs union is to facilitate trade and stimulate EAC partners States\u2019 citizens to boost their trade.
\nAccording to L\u00e9once Niyonzima, the Director of Program and Monitoring in the Department of Customs and Excise at \u201cOBR\u201d, EAC partner States have agreed on the same taxation thanks to the customs union. \u201cTaxes have been reduced to 0% for raw material and capital good products, to 10% for intermediate goods and 25% for finished products. But for sinsitive products the taxation rates vary from 35 to 60% according to their origin\u201d he says. He adds that there are products whose taxes are high to protect and boost local products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This 30th October 2013, a press conference has been held, in the Ministry in Charge of East African Community Affairs, to inform Burundians about the achievements and challenges Burundi should overcome for an effective EAC customs union implementation. –By Lorraine-Josiane Manishatse Since 1st July 2009 when Burundi has joined the EAC customs union protocol, important […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[216,561],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}