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    The Significance of Sequencing of Stages of Integration in the East African Community Customs Union
    (University of Dar es Salaam, 2007) Masomhe, Pastory MDS
    This study examines whether is any risk in skipping the stages of integration in the EAC or not, if there are what are they? In conducting this research interviews and consultations were made with few selected institutions such as the ministry of East African Cooperation in Tanzania Moreover, the study took advantage of the report of the committee on EAC fast tracking Political Federation. Also comparative analysis was employed to analyse the situation in the EAC in comparison with the situation in the European Union as a successful integration. The study has shown that in each stage there are basic criteria both political and economic which must be fulfilled so as to realize sustainable integration In the case of the EAC Partner States both political and economic criteria are yet to be met. So it is very difficult to quality and judge a potential integration in the EAC After considering all the examples in the study, and the experience in other regional integration in the world compared to what is happening in the EAC. It comes clear that material condition does not provide a possibility for fast tracking the political Federation in terms of skipping/compressing the stages of integration in EAC. It should be born in the minds of the EAC partner States that the macro-economic harmonization and convergence in an integration scheme is only possible and sustained through a development agenda.