Kenya-UK trade activities suffer glitches due to new policies

Workers from Naivasha based Van Den Berg prepares roses for export ahead of Valentine. [Photo: Antony Gitonga]

Trade between Kenya and the United Kingdom has been declining for a decade because of a ban on local horticultural products, a report has said.

According to the report by the Export Promotion Council and the UK’s Department of International Development (DfID), exports to the UK started to decline in 2008 after the European Union reduced the levels of a pesticide residue that is legally tolerated in food exports referred to as ‘maximum residual levels’.