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Court halts import of duty-free sugar

 

Dock workers off load imported sugar at the Mombasa Port earlier this year. An influx of cheap imports of the commodity is hurting local farmers. [File, Standard]

The High Court has temporarily suspended the importation of duty-free sugar in a move likely to boost the local sugar industry.

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