{"id":229689,"date":"2026-04-07T01:44:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-called-to-improve-business-climate-to-fully-leverage-chinas-zero-tariff-offer\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T01:44:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:44:57","slug":"kenya-called-to-improve-business-climate-to-fully-leverage-chinas-zero-tariff-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-called-to-improve-business-climate-to-fully-leverage-chinas-zero-tariff-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Called to Improve Business Climate to Fully Leverage China&#8217;s Zero-Tariff Offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Kenya must strengthen its business environment and support exporters to fully capitalize on China&#8217;s decision to grant duty-free access to African goods, Chinese Ambassador to Kenya Guo Haiyan has said, warning that the benefits will depend on reforms and competitiveness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Speaking during a briefing to Kenyan journalists and scholars, Guo described the full implementation of zero-tariff treatment for African exports as a milestone in China-Africa trade relations, but emphasized that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604060597.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Kenya must strengthen its business environment and support exporters to fully capitalize on China&#8217;s decision to grant duty-free access to African goods, Chinese Ambassador to Kenya Guo Haiyan has said, warning that the benefits will depend on reforms and competitiveness. Speaking during a briefing to Kenyan journalists and scholars, Guo described the full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":229690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[4338,258,256,11546,9889,6239,18195,6449,4688,430,20811,257,10280,254,54104],"class_list":["post-229689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-business","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-called","tag-chinas","tag-climate","tag-fully","tag-improve","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-leverage","tag-news","tag-offer","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zerotariff"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}