NAIROBI: Zambia and Kenya have agreed to find tangible solutions to issues affecting the two countries trade volumes.
The trade volume for Zambia into Kenya currently stands at 50 million U.S dollars while exports from Kenya to Zambia are at 70m U.S dollars.
Foreign Affairs Minister Harry Kalaba says Zambia is currently finding it hard to export its sugar to Kenya.
Mr Kalaba says the two counties also explored issued surrounding the exportation of milk from Kenya to Zambia.
He says a team of technocrat has been given a task to form committees that will address the export challenges the two counties are facing.
Mr. Kalaba was speaking during a media briefing shortly after signing of a communiqué issued during the 9th Joint permanent commission JPC with his Kenyan counterpart in Kenya on Sunday.
And Kenya’s Foreign Affairs and international trade Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed says there need to come with a follow up mechanism to ensure that all bottleneck surrounding trade between two countries are addressed.
Dr. Mohamed says Kenya is keen to remove trade barriers within the shortest possible time.
And in a communiqué issued by Kenya’s ministry of foreign Affairs Principle secretary Karanja Kibicho, Zambia and Kenya have agreed to strengthen its cooperation in ICT, share experiences in field of renewable energy generation.
