NAIROBI – Kenyan trade minister said on Wednesday Kenya and the United States will resume negotiations in Washington next week in search of a bilateral trade deal, the.
The talks will be held from Monday to Thursday, Lee Kinyanjui said in remarks shared by his office, followed by one or two meetings after that “to firm up deliberations”.
The East African nation, which exported goods worth 737 million dollars or 10 per cent of its total exports to the U.S. in 2024, held talks with Washington in 2025 to safeguard market access, seeking to conclude a process that started in 2020 during President Donald Trump’s first term.
New talks were opened under President Joe Biden’s administration on a trade and investment partnerships aimed at lifting non-tariff barriers but were not completed before Trump returned to office in 2025. (Reuters
