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Practical sheets to prepare an import, an export or a transit, based on published texts and procedures.

11 resources

  • The EAC Customs Union: an overview

    The core principles of the East African Community (EAC) Customs Union: a common external tariff, elimination of internal tariffs, and the Single Customs Territory, based on the EAC Customs Union Protocol.

    Version 1.0 Effective since 11 October 2026

  • The EAC Common External Tariff (CET)

    The EAC CET applies tariff bands to imports from outside the EAC, with sensitive product lists treated differently by partner state.

    Version 1.0 Effective since 11 October 2026

  • The EAC Certificate of Origin

    The EAC Certificate of Origin attests that goods meet EAC rules of origin, qualifying them for intra-EAC preferential treatment.

    Version 1.0 Effective since 11 October 2026

  • The Simplified Trade Regime (STR) for small-scale cross-border traders

    The EAC Simplified Trade Regime (STR) eases small-scale cross-border trade, using a simplified accompanying document for goods on an agreed common list.

    Version 1.0 Effective since 11 October 2026

  • The EAC Single Customs Territory (SCT)

    The EAC Single Customs Territory (SCT) allows goods to be cleared at the first point of entry, without a fresh full declaration at internal borders crossed in transit.

    Version 1.0 Effective since 11 October 2026

  • Understanding EAC rules of origin

    Rules of origin determine whether a good is considered to originate in an EAC partner state and therefore qualifies for the intra-EAC preferential regime.

    Version 1.0 Effective since 11 October 2026

  • Standards and SPS harmonisation in the EAC

    The EAC works to harmonise technical standards and sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures across its partner states, carried in particular by national standards bodies.

    Version 1.0 Effective since 11 October 2026

  • EAC One Stop Border Posts (OSBPs)

    One Stop Border Posts (OSBPs) combine the controls of two neighbouring countries on a single site to cut crossing times, as at Malaba, Busia, Rusumo or Mutukula.

    Version 1.0 Effective since 11 October 2026

  • The Northern and Central Corridors of East Africa

    The Northern Corridor links the Port of Mombasa to Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, eastern DRC and South Sudan; the Central Corridor links the Port of Dar es Salaam to the same landlocked countries via an alternative route.

    Version 1.0 Effective since 11 October 2026

  • The role of national revenue authorities in EAC trade

    Each EAC partner state has its own revenue authority responsible for customs: KRA in Kenya, TRA in Tanzania, URA in Uganda, RRA in Rwanda, OBR in Burundi, DGDA in DRC.

    Version 1.0 Effective since 11 October 2026

  • The EAC Common Market Protocol

    Beyond the customs union, the EAC adopted a Common Market Protocol providing for free movement of goods, services, capital and persons between partner states.

    Version 1.0 Effective since 11 October 2026