Regional trade hampered by increasing barriers and influx of cheap imports from China

Congestion of containers at the port of Mombasa in 2008. . [PHOTO BY GIDEON MAUNDU/STANDARD

Pakistan has become Kenya’s largest export market even as trade with the country’s East African neighbours continues to falter.

The value of exports to the Far East nation went up by 69 per cent from Sh40 billion recorded in 2016 to Sh64 billion last year, boosted largely by tea, Government data shows.