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By GERALD ANDAE
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Sugar imports in the five months to May dropped 50 per cent compared with the same period last year as a market glut.
A market report by the Sugar Directorate shows the volume of sugar brought in to 80,596 in the first five months of the year.
More than 500,000 tons of contraband sugar has been confiscated in the
The monthly report indicates that in May, the volumes went down from 30,089 tons last year to 19,081 in 2018.
In the period under review, table sugar imports totalled 5,732 tons while refined white sugar was 13,349
The directorate has been regulating the volume of imported sweetener to an average of 7,000 tons a month from highs of 29,000 tons in an ideal situation.
Normally, Kenya is annually allowed to impo rt 350,000 tons of sugar from the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa), which is spread across the year to about 30,000 tons monthly.
The country imported 981,000 tons of sugar between May and December last year Kenya opened the duty Nonetheless, the contraband sugar is not part of 981,000 tonnes. The price of sugar is not reduced to 981,000 tonnes. .
The directorate says the number of traders of the world.
The Treasury scrapped duty on the commodity kilograms of kilograms
Kenya produces about 600,000 tons of sugar a year, compared with annual consumption of 870,000 tons
The sugar deficit is usually covered by stri
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