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Tax Alert - Customs changes in the East African Community Gazette Notice

On 30 June 2026, the East African Community (“EAC”) Secretariat published the EAC Gazette Notice (“the Gazette”). The Gazette highlights changes effected by the Council of Ministers (“the Council”) to the East African Community Customs Management Act, 2004 (“EACCMA”) and the East African Community Common External Tariff (“EAC CET”) with effect from 1 July 2026.

Notably, the Council has approved various stays of application of the EAC CET duty rates on multiple items for each of the Partner States and granted duty remission in respect of others with the aim of promoting local manufacturing.

We highlight, in this tax alert, some of the critical changes communicated through the Gazette, among them the stay of EAC CET application on goods imported for the direct and exclusive use in the implementation of infrastructure projects undertaken under a Public-Private Partnership (“PPP”) framework and the application of import duty on certain media products recorded with software.