Kenya's trade deficit deteriorated in the year ending March as imports accelerated to a new high.

While the East African nation imported goods worth over 21 billion U.S. dollars during the period under review, exports amounted to 7 billion dollars, according to new an economic report from Treasury received Friday in Nairobi.

The worsening of the trade imbalance was continuation from the previous periods. As of the end of the first quarter last year, the country's imports stood at 16.8 billion dollars while exports at 5.7 billion dollars.