Kenya's sugar retail prices remain high despite duty-free imports

Kenya sugar retail prices

Packets of sugar being sold at a supermarket in Nyeri County , Kenya.  PHOTO | JOSEPH KANYI | NMG

Duty-free sugar imports, which were allowed into Kenya from January, have failed to cool off high retail prices.

Data from the Sugar Directorate indicates that the volumes imported between January and March were 93,000 tonnes against 46,000 in a similar period last year.