Why Kenya failed to set up new offices to market goods abroad

Staff at African Coffee Roasters industry in Export Processing Zone Athi River on July 26, 2018.

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The State Department for Trade has blamed lengthy consultations for the failure to establish commercial offices in three undisclosed countries last financial year in a bid to help traders to access new markets and diversify exports.

As part of a broader strategy to expand and diversify the goods and services Kenya sells abroad, the department had targeted to open the same number of offices to facilitate trade as it had done in the previous year ended June 2023.

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