Why Kenya is losing Ugandan and Tanzanian export markets to China

Kenya’s golden days of exporting more into its neighbouring countries may come to an end soon. This is after a new World Bank report showed that cheap Chinese products have been slowly displacing Kenyan manufactured products from the Tanzanian and Ugandan markets.

For long, Kenya’s main trading partners have been the East African countries of Tanzania and Uganda but with the advent of cheap Chinese products into these markets, this is set to change.