date:Jul 18, 2018
eaves a deficit of 989,000 metric tonnes that is bridged by imports.
Kenya is a member of the Comesa Free Trade Area (Comesa-FTA). The FTA obliges the country to allow duty and quota free access for products including sugar from the other FTA member countries into her market.
But it also provides for the imposition of safeguard measures in order to reduce the quantities of commodity imported for a stipulated period of time to allow a particular industry to recover.