| Published Tue, October 24th 2017 at 14:56, Updated October 24th 2017 at 15:01 GMT +3Dock workers off load imported sugar at the Mombasa Port earlier this year. [File, Standard]The High Court has temporarily suspended the importation of duty-free sugar in a move likely to boost the local sugar industry. CS Rotich had first scrapped duty on imported sugar from outside the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) region in May. In his application, Omtatah had argued that the duty-free importation and dumping of sugar in the local market was detrimental to the local sugar industry. The deficit is met by sugar importation mainly from the Comesa region under strict quotas as part of a plan to protect local sugar millers.

Source: Standard Digital October 24, 2017 12:00 UTC