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The countries in the East African Community (EAC) are among the fastest growing economies in sub-Saharan Africa. The EAC countries are making significant progress toward financial integration, including harmonization of supervisory arrangements and practices and the modernization of monetary policy frameworks. This book focuses on regional integration in the EAC and argues that the establishment of a time table for the eliminating the sensitive-products list and establishing a supranational legal framework for resolving trade disputes are important reforms that should foster regional integrati

Intro -- TRADE IN THE EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY FACILITATION MEASURES AND POTENTIAL BENEFITS -- TRADE IN THE EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY FACILITATION MEASURES AND POTENTIAL BENEFITS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 TRADE FACILITATION IN THE EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND POTENTIAL BENEFITS -- ACRONYMS -- GLOSSARY -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- Overview -- Trade Facilitation Benefits -- Cutting Delays Throughout the Supply Chain Lowers Trading Costs and Can Boost Exports, Imports, and Investment -- Shorter and More Predictable Transport Times Can Cut Costs, Raise Profits, and Allow Product Diversification -- Reforming Trade Regulations and Customs Operations Can Significantly Lower Trade Costs and Increase Trade -- Upgrading Transportation Infrastructure, Including Ports, Railways, Roads, and Air Transport, Is Crucial for Increasing Trade -- Transportation Regulations And Policy Play Key Roles in Shaping the Efficiency of the Entire Transport System -- EAC Trade Facilitation Activities -- Required Trade Documents and Inspections Are Numerous and Unpredictable, but Targeted for Harmonization -- EAC Is Making Progress Toward Risk-Based Inspection Regimes -- All EAC Members Are Moving Toward Electronic Customs Data Interchange Systems and Harmonized Customs Information Sharing -- Infrastructure Improvements Have Had Difficulty Keeping Pace with Rising Traffic and Trade Flows -- Transport on the Northern and Central Corridors -- The Northern Corridor Is the Major Conduit of EAC Trade -- The Port of Mombasa Suffers from Significant Clearance Bottlenecks, but Is Slated for Upgrades -- Northern Corridor Roads Are in "Good" to "Fair" Condition, but Administrative Problems Raise Shippers' Costs -- Costs For Rail Transport in the Northern Corridor Are Lower Than Those for Road, But Rail is Much More Unpredictable

Chapter One. Introduction -- The puzzle -- Argument -- Situating the book -- Why this book? -- Approach of the book -- Chapter Two. The missing link -- Inadequacy of existing explanations -- Regionalism and the EAC -- From regionalism to regional security cooperation -- Regionalism and security cooperation in the EAC -- Understanding non-cooperation on armed rebellions in the eac -- Unexplained issues: the analytic value of sovereignty -- Chapter Three. Sovereignty concerns, sovereignty bargains, and security cooperation -- State sovereignty: the basis of sovereignty concerns -- Sovereignty bargains -- International/regional security cooperation -- Chapter Four. Different security issues, different sovereignty concerns -- Sovereignty concerns and their variations -- Discerning levels of SCs that different security issues evoke -- From sovereignty concerns to sovereignty bargaining -- Chapter Five. Normal bargaining and security cooperation in the EAC -- The EAC security cooperation framework -- From normal bargains to security cooperation instruments -- Security cooperation: terrorism and SALWs -- Precis of findings -- Chapter Six. Non-bargain I: judicial opposition and non-cooperation on armed rebellions -- Rebellions as critical-sovereignty issues in the EAC -- Non-bargaining strategies and non-cooperation on rebellions -- Chapter Seven. Non-bargaining II: purposeful silence on Uganda's LRA rebellion -- The EALA's frustrations -- Precis of non-bargaining and non-cooperation -- Chapter Eight. Concluding observations -- Precis of findings -- Implications of this book and its contribution -- Applicability beyond the EAC -- Recommendations -- Appendix I. Major historical events and processes in East African regionalism -- Appendix II: Armed rebellions affecting EAC states since 1993