Four firms get preferential tax on newsprint imports

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Workers pack books in carton boxes at Kartasi Band limited warehouse in Nairobi, Kenya. PHOTO | FILE | NMG

Four Kenyan firms have been cleared to import 15,250 tonnes of newsprint paper under a special East Africa Community (EAC) tax for the manufacture of textbooks.

Deng Alor Kuol, chairperson Council of Ministers, said Kenafric Manufacturing Limited has been allowed to import 12,000 tonnes of newsprint under the EAC duty-remission scheme while Elite Offset Limited has the nod to ship in 2,000 tonnes of the commodity.

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