Traders defy duty-free sugar import quota, raising prices

Sugar at a Nyeri supermarket. PHOTO | JOSEPH KANYI | NMG

Traders breached the limit the Treasury set on duty-free sugar imports and shipped in 25.4 percent above the quota by the end of last November, subjecting the consumers to costly sweetener.

According to the Sugar Directorate, traders imported 263,988 in the review period, exceeding 210,530, which is the limit that the Treasury set for sugar coming in from Common Markets for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa).

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