EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.

If you are a small scale farmer in Kenya, Uganda or Tanzania, you are impacted by international trade agreements. Some of you grow crops for export, such as tea and coffee; with export crops, it is easy to see how the degree that a country like the UK opens up its markets to exports directly impacts you. If the UK agrees not to charge tax on coffee coming from East Africa but does charge tax and other fees on coffee from other countries, East African coffee growers have an advantage. And if the UK doesn’t charge a tax for unprocessed coffee but does require the East African exporters to pay a tax for processed or packaged coffee, East African coffee growers are at a disadvantage if they want to add value to their coffee. 

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