{Some small-scale traders still use informal entries to have their goods in the East African Community (EAC) partner states\u2019 markets due to ignorance on the free move-ment of people and goods in the region.}<\/p>\n
In separate occasions, the three organisations that edu-cate entrepreneurs in the coun-try told the \u2018Daily News\u2019 that many small businesspeople whom they had talked with confirmed to have used il-legal routes, admitting being unaware of the benefits that come with the EAC common market, particularly on the free movement of goods and people.<\/p>\n
Reached for comment yes-terday, the Minister for For-eign Affairs and East African Cooperation, Dr Augustine Mahiga, promised to explain in details soon on the ways<\/p>\n
Tanzanians could benefit from the common market as well as the government\u2019s strategies to raise public awareness on the matter.<\/p>\n
The Treasurer with Vib-indo Society, Mr Jumbe Ng-utto, said traders were missing the opportunity to exploit the potentials of customs duty free trading of goods not exceeding 2,000 US dollars (about 4.3m\/) within the EAC partner states due to lack of awareness.<\/p>\n
\u201cAwareness is a seri-ous challenge … traders pass through illegal borders, risk-ing arrests, even if they have goods whose value is within the allowable amount,\u201d Mr Ngutto told the \u2018Daily News\u2019 during a recent interview.<\/p>\n
He said the society has for the past one year engaged in awareness campaign to edu-cate the business groups about the immense opportunities that the EAC avails to them, but financial constraints have impeded efforts to reach out to many traders and entrepre-neurs across the country.<\/p>\n
The Vibindo Society is one of the beneficiaries of a programme under the Founda-tion for Civil Society (FCS) that seeks to build capacity of organisations to educate the public about EAC issues.<\/p>\n
Assistant National Coordi-nator for CARITAS-Tanzania, a faith-based organisation that supports entrepreneurs, Ms Anna Sifa, said since major-ity small entrepreneurs re-main unaware of the EAC free movement of people, some of them tend to use their friends in other partner states to smug-gle their goods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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