Barely three months after a collective decision was made by East Africa Community ministers to correct the duty structure on paper to reflect the correct value chain position and make the EAC packaging industry more competitive, the Kenyan government, through its ministers of Finance and Industrialisation and Enterprise Development, has curiously decided to take the backward step of making its own packaging industries and converters uncompetitive by reintroducing a higher duty of 25 per cent on products not made in EAC. What a show of policy instability! This takes us back to a position which...
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