The Kenya Trade Remedies Agency (KETRA) has been established by the Section 3(1) of the Kenya Trade Remedies Act (2017), entered into force on 16th August 2017, with the purposes of investigating and evaluating allegations of dumping and subsidisation of imported products in Kenya; investigating and evaluating requests for application of safeguard measures on any product imported in Kenya and advising the Cabinet Secretary responsible for Trade on the results and recommendations of its investigations. Other functions of KETRA include the conduct of public awareness and training activities on its functions and on trade remedies to the benefit of stakeholders, as well as the publication and dissemination of manuals, codes, guidelines, and decisions relating to its functions. KETRA will also perform other specific functions that the Cabinet Secretary in charge of Trade may assign to it. The new government agency will start soon its operations, as the Kenyan Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives is finalising the procedure for the appointment of the members of its Board.

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The latest edition (21th) of the WTO Monitoring Report on G20 trade measures, issued on 24 June 2019, concludes that trade restrictions in G20 countries, despite a significant decrease in their number (with respect to previous years), have kept expanding in terms of trade-coverage in the period from 16 October 2018 to 15 May 2019, by affecting larger quantities of products and services than in the past.

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