{"id":23910,"date":"2026-02-18T08:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/kenya-us-to-resume-trade-talks-next-week\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:40","slug":"kenya-us-to-resume-trade-talks-next-week","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/kenya-us-to-resume-trade-talks-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya, US to resume trade talks next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Kenya and the United States (US) will resume negotiations in Washington next week in search of a bilateral trade deal, the Kenyan Trade Minister said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The talks will be held from Monday through to Thursday, Lee Kinyanjui said in remarks shared by his office, followed by one or two meetings after that &#8220;to firm up deliberations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The East African nation, which exported goods worth $737 million or 10% of its total exports, to the US in 2024, held talks with Washington in August 2025 to safeguard market access, seeking to conclude a process that started in 2020 during President Donald Trump&#8217;s first term.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">New talks were opened under former President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration on a trade and investment partnership aimed at lifting non-tariff barriers but were not completed before Trump returned to office in 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13358,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-23910","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Kenya and the US will resume negotiations","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26742,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23910\/revisions\/26742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}