ABSTRACT
Since gaining independence from Great Britain in 1963, Kenya followed an import-substituting industrialization strategy for the next two decades. Since the early 1980s, Kenya has liberalized its trade regime, though progress on opening up the economy has been uneven, with rapid liberalization often followed by some reversal of reforms. However, by the end of the 1990s, Kenya had witnessed among the largest absolute reductions in tariff rates among developing countries, and had a considerably more liberal trade regime than it had in the early 1980s.
