Kenya-Tanzania trade wars hit manufacturers despite truce

Kenya Revenue Authority Taveta border post station manager Daniel Onyoyo Ombaka address journalists at the tracks verification yard during a tour of the border post. [Gideon Maundu/Standard]

Manufacturers are frustrated by Tanzania’s push-back over duty-free sugar imports after the country slapped a 25 per cent duty on Kenyan goods.

The Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) said Tanzanian authorities’ refusal to comply with the EAC Preferential Treatment Code had barred local goods, causing manufacturers huge losses.