Kenya’s duty-free sugar imports triple

A customer picks sugar off the shelf at a supermarket in Nairobi. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Sugar imports grew threefold in 11 months to November 2017 compared with the previous year following the scrapping of duty on the commodity to bridge the local deficit.

A market report from the Sugar Directorate indicates the volumes shipped into the country tripled to 971,212 in the period under review from 290,256 in corresponding period the previous year.

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