Duty-free sugar imports fail to tame high retail prices after four months

A tractor ferrying sugarcane from sugarcane plantations. 

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Duty-free sugar imports have failed to cool off high retail prices of the commodity despite being shipped into the country since January when the window was first opened.

Data from the Sugar Directorate indicates that the volumes imported between January and March this year were 93,000 tonnes against 46,000 in a similar period last year.

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