Nine firms cleared to import 50,500 tonnes of refined sugar
A Nairobi Bottlers Limited manufacturing plant along Kagundo Road in Nairobi. Nairobi Bottlers Limited has been cleared to ship in Sugar for industrial use 24,000 tonnes of industrial sugar for the production of carbonated soft drinks and juice.
Nine Kenyan firms have been cleared to import a total of 50,500 tonnes of industrial sugar under a special East Africa Community (EAC) tax for the manufacture of various industrial products including soda.
Any sugar-based products made in Kenya are manufactured using industrial sugar imported under the EAC-wide duty remission scheme which attracts a payable rate of 10 per cent duty.
