Kenyan knitwear exporters may be the biggest knitting sector winners from a comprehensive trade deal struck between the European Union (EU) and the East African Community (EAC). The deal should boost trade between the two regions - including of yarns and knitted or crocheted clothing and fabrics. Trade between the EU and East Africa's economic hub, Kenya, may especially prosper, as its exporters currently pay significant duties on knitwear exports to Europe, while poorer EAC countries - Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda - do not, under the EU's 'everything but arms' arrangement for the world's least developed countries.
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