The East African Community (EAC) Council of Ministers has granted five Kenyan manufacturing firms the go-ahead to import 23,459 tonnes of industrial sugar under preferential duty terms for the next 12 months.
The deal that allows the commodity to be imported at a duty rate of 10 per cent will see Excel Chemical Limited bring in 9,000 tonnes of sugar for use in making fruit juices, flavoured drinks, drinking chocolate and jelly.
