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    The impact of non- tariff barriers on trade in the East Africa Community: a case study of free trade between Kenya and Tanzania
    (KESRA/JKUAT - Unpublished research project, 2019) Chebon, Chemosop Phoebe
    Many world economies have been embracing regional integration as strategy towards achieving an accelerated economic development, which is a key agenda for many states and promise given to electorates every time they elect the leaders. Despite globalization gaining prominence as countries are increasingly becoming borderless, available literature indicates that international trade is still faced with a myriad of challenges among them non-tariff-barriers (NTBs) with EAC not being an exception. This research project titled “non-tariff barriers in East African Community and free trade between Kenya and Tanzania” therefore endeavored to assess the status of implementation of the East Africa Common Market (EACM) Protocol goals, examine the existing trade barriers in East Africa Common Market, and explore how NTBs affect Kenya-Tanzania free trade and the EAC in general. Exploratory research adopted for this study where data collected from the sampled 25 key informants, various publications and annual reports were quantitatively analyzed and presented. The study was be guided by the following specific objectives:-To investigate the effect of Customs and Administrative Entry and Passage Procedures on trade in the East African Community, to find out the effect of Documentation Procedures on trade in the East African Community, to investigate the effect of Multiple Police Road Blocks and Mobile Control on trade in the East African Community. The study sample size was 25. This study used primary data collected through questionnaires. A pre-test on a different sample was carried out to give a Cronbach’s alpha greater than 0.7 for all the variables as a rule of thumb. Data analysis were done by descriptive statistics and inferential statistics using Standard statistical techniques including Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis employed in the analysis. All the analysis was done using the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS Version.24). Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to establish if there is a statistical significance between the observed and expected values with the Pearson Chi square giving the degree significance of the relations, hence establishing the hypotheses. In multivariate analysis, multiple regression analysis models were used to determine the type of the relationship that existed between independent and dependent variables. The status of non-tariff barriers within the EAC reveal that efforts to eliminate NTBs are being made by the member states albeit riddled with conflicting national interests that make their success slow and sometimes unsuccessful. There is need to put more efforts in eliminating NTBs since findings indicate that they still persist.