{"id":12595,"date":"2026-01-15T13:28:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=12595"},"modified":"2026-01-15T13:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:28:27","slug":"kenya-in-china-trade-talks-after-exclusion-from-duty-free-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=12595","title":{"rendered":"Kenya in China trade talks after exclusion from duty-free pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"textFreeArticle\">\n<p>Kenya began talks with China for a trade deal after the East African nation was excluded from a list of least developed nations countries granted duty- and quota-free access by Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have initiated discussions with China to negotiate a bilateral trade agreement that aligns with the privileges enjoyed by our East African Community neighbors and other African nations,\u201d Trade Secretary Lee Kinyanjui said in emailed statement.<\/p>\n<p>These talks have unlocked a preliminary agreement allowing 98.2% zero-duty market access for Kenyan goods, he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"visible-sm-block visible-xs-block m1010\">\n<div class=\"ad-container-wrapper\">\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The US is pressuring Kenya against signing a substantive trade deal with China, the Standard newspaper reported over the weekend, citing people it didn\u2019t identify.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see no tension between our concluding a market access arrangement with China on one hand and our robust push for AGOA re-authorisation as well as a separate Bilateral Trade Agreement with the United States on the other,\u201d Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Korir Sing\u2019oei said in a January 13 post on X.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya is seeking to extend its participation in the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act pact that gave much of the continent duty- and quota free access to the US until it expired last year.<\/p>\n<p>The US Senate is set to discuss a three-year extension for the AGOA pact as President Donald Trump\u2019s protectionism pushes African nations into diversifying their main markets.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Moneyweb\u2019s in-depth finance and business news on WhatsApp here.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\">\n            !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n            {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n                n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n                if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n                n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n                t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n                'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n            fbq('init', '779812924991616');\n            fbq('track', 'PageView');\n        <\/script>#Kenya #China #trade #talks #exclusion #dutyfree #pact<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya began talks with China f&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[173,8963,8962,8961,8964,460,220],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}