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OPINION: Dear Kenyans, all that Ugandans want is Fairplay in trade or at least to return the good gesture

by Muhereza Kyamutetera
Goods trucks at the Kenya-Uganda border of Busia. Ugandan businesses are complaining of several underhand methods, including non-tariff barriers that are costing them business while the Kenyan businesses receive nearly a red-carpet treatment in Uganda.
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For a long, long time, Kenya enjoyed brisk export business to Uganda, so much so that the trade deficit between Uganda and Kenya, in favour of Kenya, reached an all-time high of USD358.5 million in 2011. This went on for a long time that Kenyans probably must have started thinking, this was their birthright. Then, Ugandan companies, put their act together, ramping up production of most of t

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Muhereza Kyamutetera is the Executive Editor of CEO East Africa Magazine. I am a travel enthusiast and the Experiences & Destinations Marketing Manager at EDXTravel. Extremely Ugandaholic. Ask me about #1000Reasons2ExploreUganda and how to Take Your Place In The African Sun.