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Cooking oil prices set to go up as new import duty takes effect

Cooking oil in a supermarket. [File, Standard]

The Association of Edible Oil Manufacturers has called on the government to put on hold plans to impose a 10 per cent import duty on crude palm oil, to forestall an increase in cooking oil prices.

The new tax came into effect this month as a result of Kenya's application of the East African Community common external Tariff to raise import duty.

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