A study aimed at highlighting the barriers to trade faced by leather businesses in Eastern and Southern Africa has been commissioned by the region’s leather industries association.

The brainchild of the Eastern & Southern Africa Leather Industries Association, the study will focus on leather-related tariffs imposed by the Ethiopian, Kenyan, Sudanese and Zimbabwean governments, with a view to their later harmonisation.   As part of the study, the state of the sector in each of the countries will be assessed, as will the effectiveness of existing measures aimed at promoting regional integration.   

The findings of the study will be presented at a Public Private Dialogue workshop in Addis Ababba in December 2004.

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