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Trade ministry defends new thorny factory levy
Ministry of Investments, Trade & Industry Cabinet Secretary Lee Kinyanjui makes his remarks during a past forum held at the Nairobi Serena Hotel on October 15, 2025.
The Trade, Investments and Industry Ministry has defended a new standards levy imposed on manufacturers from August 2025, denying that it was executed non-procedurally.
The ministry, through the Kenya Bureau of Standards (Kebs), gazetted the Standards (Standards Levy) Order, 2025, in August 2025—triggering a legal fight that saw the High Court suspend the levy following an application by the Green Thinking Action Party (GTAP), which challenged the new levy, arguing that the new payments would cripple the operations of manufacturers.
