US to review Kenyan negotiations

The Biden administration will review bilateral trade negotiations and targets that ex-President Donald Trump's regime made with Kenya last year over a potential free trading deal. The new US administration wants to make sure that the negotiations are consistent with Biden's $4trn revamp of the US economy that focuses on a muscular industrial policy. The East African reports that newly-appointed US trade Chief Katherine Tai said the negotiations over a bilateral trade pact with Kenya must promote the procurement of locally-manufactured goods both in the US and abroad and ‘aligns with the administration's Build Back Better agenda’. A trade agreement with Kenya, which would be the first US free trade deal in sub-Saharan Africa, comes amid a growing concern about China's investments across Africa.