Factors affecting implementation of East Africa community single customs territory at the port of Mombasa.
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Date
2019
Authors
Rangana, Gideon Mogere
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KESRA/JKUAT - Unpublished research project
Abstract
Over times trade between the East African community countries has been affected by inefficient trade facilitation measures. In bid to facilitate regional trade, EAC member states agreed to implement Single Customs Territory (SCT). It is clear that implementation of SCT has been hampered by challenges. The study sought to ascertain factors affecting t. It he implementation of East Africa Community Single Customs Territory. The study determines the effect of three factors: customs personnel practices; EAC customs administrations ICT systems, and stakeholders’ involvement on implementation of EAC single customs territory. This research was based on three theories namely system theory, theory of regional integration and customs union theory. Implementation of SCT will create a level trading ground within EAC countries by coming up with common external trade policies. It will also reduce the cost of doing business which will encourage more domestic foreign investors. Finally, SCT attracts foreign, domestic and cross-border investments. To ensure successful implementation of EAC single customs territory, EAC projected July 2017 as the deadline for fully implementation of SCT. The projected time schedule has elapsed. The study used a descriptive research design. Populations that was targeted in this case were customs officials and customs agents. Stratified random sampling technique was used to come up with the sample size of 287 who were 28% of the total population. Data was done using questionnaires and interviews. Through the use of content analysis, the qualitative data was analyzed and then presented in a prose form. The quantitative data was analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS version 25). This was done using the inferential and descriptive statistics. The study findings indicated that Customs personnel practices has a strong influence to the implementation of the EAC single Customs territory by 28%, while Partner States Customs Administration ICT systems strongly affects the implementation by 35.4% whereas the stakeholders’ involvement has a moderate influence to the implementation of the EAC single customs territory by 21.7%, these results were supported by the correlation and multiple analysis models obtained. The study recommends for localization of customs training institutions, staff training, Harmonization of the Partner States Information Systems and increase of stakeholder’s participation at all levels of implementation.
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PROJ 343.085 MOG
Keywords
Single Custom Territory, Customs Union, Maritime Products