WASHINGTON – Consistent with the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to the highest levels of transparency in trade agreement negotiations, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) today released summaries of texts proposed by the U.S. side on good regulatory practices, workers’ rights and protections, and a second tranche of agriculture text. Negotiations on these texts are ongoing. USTR will negotiate the workers’ rights and protections and agriculture texts during the April 2-12 round in Washington, D.C.
The goal of the Partnership is to increase investment; promote sustainable and inclusive economic growth; benefit workers, consumers, and businesses (including micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises); and support African regional economic integration.
The summaries detail the negotiating proposals from the U.S. side for the following chapters: a second tranche on agriculture, good regulatory practices, and workers’ rights and protections. USTR previously released public summaries of texts on agriculture; anticorruption; micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises; and services domestic regulation.
The United States and Kenya share the goal to pursue, through the Partnership and these negotiations, high standard commitments in a wide range of areas in order to achieve economically meaningful outcomes, as outlined in the joint statement that was released on July 14, 2022.
Resources:
U.S.-Kenya Strategic Trade and Investment Partnership Summary of Second Set of Texts
U.S.-Kenya Strategic Trade and Investment Partnership Summary of First Set of Texts
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