Workers offload sugarcane at a factory. Recurring sugar crises in East Africa routinely involve bouts of shortage followed by the affected EAC country seeking an exemption to import sugar below the EAC Common External Tariff (CET) rate. PHOTO | NMG
Presidents Yoweri Museveni and John Magufuli on Thursday met over Tanzania’s decision to impose a 25 per cent import duty on sugar manufactured in Uganda and pointed at Kenya as the source of the problem.
Tanzania has demanded a 25 per cent import duty from Kagera Sugar Ltd, which had at the end of April entered into a contract to buy 5,000 tonnes of sugar from Kakira Sugar Works.
