Rwanda pushing for duty-free sugar imports

Rwanda has requested its East African Community (EAC) counterparts to consider waiving import taxes imposed on sugar from outside the block as an incentive to increase supply and stabilise prices in the local market. The Minister of Trade and Industry, François Kanimba, told Business Times that they want EAC to allow Rwanda to import sugar, duty-free, a move that would help avert the looming acute domestic supply shortage.
Workers at Kabuye sugar loading a truck with sacks of sugar.  (Photo / J.Mbanda)
Workers at Kabuye sugar loading a truck with sacks of sugar. (Photo / J.Mbanda)
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