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A Critical Safari through Tanzania`s Investment Climate

22 NOVEMBER 2015, JOHANNESBURG, AZWIMPHELELI LANGALNGA & AUREA MOUZINHO

OUTLINE

• 1. Brief Economic History of Tanzania
• 2. Locating Tanzania in international FDI regulation
• 3. Domestic regulation of foreign investments in Tanzania
• 4. Structural challenges to foreign investments in Tanzania
• 5. Towards sustainable investment
• 6. Recommendations and conclusions

BRIEF ECONOMIC HISTORY

• THREE MAIN PHASES

1. CAPITAL ECONOMY

• 1961- 1967
• Characterised import substitution , public private partnerships

2 UJAAMAA ( 1967-1983)

• Julius Nyerere African brand of socialism
• Massive nationalisation, price controls, government subsidies and export restrictions
• State owned enterprises grew from 40-425

3. Liberalisation Era ( 1983-current)

• Structural adjustment programs
• Privatisation-reduction of the SOEs from 425 to current 176
• Membership to the WTO and other regional and multilateral institutions

TZ`S FDI REGULATION

• World Trade Organisation TRIMS Agreement
• General Agreement on Trade in Services (Mode III)
• Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa

Investment Chapter

• Southern African Development Community FIP
• Twenty Bilateral Investment Treaties
• Tanzanian Investment Act and Policies

TZ`S OBLIGATIONS UNDER GATS/TRIMS

• Tanzania has committed to commercial presence GATS
• The country did not open up much of its sectors:

schedule of commitments

• TRIMS basically prohibits the use of performance

requirements except as safeguards

• COMESA had an investment chapter akin to an OECD BIT
• SADC Finance and Investment Protocol (akin to BIT)
• 20 BITS signed 12 in force

CROSS CUTTING PRINCIPLES

• National Treatment
• Most Favored Nation
• Market access (via commercial presence GATS)
• Fair and Equitable Treatment
• Prohibition on expropriation/nationalisation
• Market value compensation
• International Arbitration

TZ DOMESTIC INVESTMENT POLICY

• Tanzania Investment Act of 1997
• Domesticates

most

• f

the principles in the international regime

• Tanzania Investment Centre ( also advises GOT on inv

policy)

• Tanzania Investment Regulations of 2002 (incentive

scheme)

• Great

framework and institution but there are challenges

TRENDS

953.1 1 813.3 1 229.4 1 799.6 2 130.9 7 898.7 9 712.0 10 941.4 12 740.9 14 871.8 4 000 8 000 12 000 16 000 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 $ million Inflows Stock

Table 1: Tanzanian FDI by Sector, $ million, January 2009 – December 2013

Sectors 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Mining and quarrying 385.1 909.9 406.5 889.3 520.4 Manufacturing 214.5 157.1 217.3 563.7 386.6 Financial and insurance 95.9 95.5 121.1 148.1 752.2 Electricity and gas 2.1 290.5 209.4 618.3 37.3 Transportation and storage 3.9 4.0 10.4 (1.0) 19.5 Other sectors 251.7 356.2 264.9 (362.7) 414.9

Source: Tanzania Investment Commission. 2014. Tanzania Investment Report 2014. Dar es Salaam: Bank of Tanzania, Tanzania Investment Centre, National Bureau of Statistics.

Figure 2: Tanzanian FDI Top Ten Source Countries of FDI Stocks, $ million, 2013

Source: Tanzania Investment Commission. 2014. Tanzania Investment Report 2014. Dar es Salaam: Bank of Tanzania, Tanzania Investment Centre, National Bureau of Statistics.

3658.8 2461.7 1834.3 1805.3 819.4 664.9 656.0 615.8 345.2 215.5

South Africa UK Barbados Canada Kenya Mauritius Netherlands Switzerland USA Norway

Figure 3: EAC FDI net inflows by Country, $ million, January 2005 – December 2015

Data Source: World Bank. 2016. Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$). Retrieved from http://data.worldbank.org/indicator on 6 September 2016.

500 1'000 1'500 2'000 2'500 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 $ million Burundi Kenya Rwanda Uganda Tanzania

CHALLENGES

• Tanzania has a positive attitude and legislation towards FDI
• Performs below EAC average in most World Bank DB

indicators

• Lack of infrastructure
• Electricity shortages
• Corruption
• Land laws and tenure
• Skills bottlenecks

POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS

• Revision of bilateral investment treaties to allow for

policy space ( use SADC Model BIT/Tz-Canada BIT)

• Government assume primarily responsibility in skills dvpt
• Develop SMEs with a view to linking to value chains
• Linking trade and investment through a value chain
• riented policy
• Develop agro processing in rural areas
• Engage in localisation efforts in tourism and transport

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