Grapevine

By Monitor
Oct 7, 2024

Rwanda overtakes Kenya as Uganda’s biggest sugar export market in EAC

Rwanda has overtaken Kenya as Uganda’s biggest sugar export market in the East African Community.

Data from Uganda Revenue Authority shows that in the nine months to September, Rwanda took 35.3 percent or 39.3 tonnes of sugar out of the 111.1 tonnes Uganda exported to the EAC Common Market.

However, available data indicates Uganda has not been exporting sugar to Kenya for some months now.

Mr Jim Kabeho, the Uganda Sugar Manufacturers Association chairman, told the East African that manufactures “have not been exporting to Kenya since July”.

Kenya recently announced a unilateral ban on imported sugar due to improved production capacity, but later indicated the ban could not apply to exporters within the EAC.