DAR ES SALAAM, Nov. 14 -- THE National Assembly yesterday approved the country's full entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO), ending almost half a century of Tanzania's efforts to join the global trading group.
A protocol amending the Marrakesh agreement that establishes WTO was ratified here, bringing to 147 the total number of members out of 164 states that had signed the agreement.
Tanzania and Burundi are the only East African nations that had not fully subscribed to the pact that was domestically signed in September 1994.
The deal now allows Tanzania to benefit from 'duty free, quota free" arrangement or a waiver to minor customs charges imposed by industrial countries to developing or least developed countries.
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