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Trade between Kenya and US drops by 25pc cent in a year

Trade between Kenya and the United States dropped by nearly a quarter in 2015, in a year that saw the country host US President Barrack Obama.

Latest data from the US Census Bureau, the principal data agency of the American government, shows the US exported goods worth $943.4 million (Sh94.4 billion), which is 42 per cent down from the $1,640.7 million (Sh164 billion) recorded in 2014.

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