{"id":63796,"date":"2024-01-01T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/eac-museveni-angry-over-blocked-ugandan-exports"},"modified":"2024-01-01T08:41:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T08:41:15","slug":"eac-museveni-angry-over-blocked-ugandan-exports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/eac-museveni-angry-over-blocked-ugandan-exports","title":{"rendered":"EAC: Museveni angry over blocked Ugandan exports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>President Museveni has expressed his frustration with members of the East African Community (EAC) imposing non-tariff barriers on others, describing them as blind policies.<\/b><\/p>\n

In his end-of-year message yesterday, President Museveni said people who are subjecting non-tariff barriers to member states are doing it to milk popularity but if mobilisation is done to show how their policies hurt all people of their countries, they would be exposed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe shall continue discussing with our East African Community partners and I am sure we shall end up with the real common market free of non-tariff barriers. Because those barriers hurt the wanaichi of all our countries. I have given you the simple example of banning rice. You hurt the Ugandan consumers, you hurt the Tanzania producers. So if there is mobilisation, actually some people think they will get popularity out of that, but if you get good mobilisation, those doing that can really be exposed,\u201d President Museveni said.<\/p>\n

Although President Museveni didn\u2019t name the countries that have imposed non-tariff barriers, Kenya blocked Uganda\u2019s milk products in their market.<\/p>\n

President Museveni rejected his trade minister\u2019s statement to retaliate and block Kenyan products saying it was against regional integration.<\/p>\n

Uganda and Kenya are also fighting in court over access to the sea, especially on the importation of oil products.<\/p>\n

President Museveni described blocking of goods from the region as a sin he personally can\u2019t commit.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe NRM [National Resistance Movement] will not be part of those blind policies. Some of the Uganda business people cite the non-tariff barriers practices by other countries because they tell me other countries are doing it. If they are doing it, that is their mistake… I will not be part of that. Of that letting down of the African people. Because like now, you see the issue of rice. You want to hurt two people. The Ugandan consumer who is lucky to buy with the same money three kilos of rice instead of buying one from Uganda,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said in the 1990s when Kenya\u2019s former President Arap Moi blocked the border to Ugandan goods, he rejected retaliatory action and kept the Ugandan borders open to Kenyan goods.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said I can\u2019t retaliate. We shall not. If he has closed…I will not. Today, Uganda\u2019s exports to Kenya are either equal to our imports or sometimes they are higher. So I refuse to be in that mistake. The issue of the Kenya and Uganda border was resolved. Rationality can\u2019t be ignored indefinitely. We shall continue discussing with our East African Community partners… Because those barriers hurt the Wanaichi of all our countries,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

While having an interview with major media houses in Kenya last month, Mr William Ruto, the president of Kenya, said in 2025 they would not import any maize because they have had bumper harvests in 2023.<\/p>\n

Uganda is one of the major exporters of maize to the Kenyan market.<\/p>\n

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