Trade and Industry minister Amelia Kyambadde says smuggling is mainly done by boda bodas through Uganda’s porous border points and the smuggled sugar is re-packaged in branded bags of Kakira, Kinyara and Lugazi sugar, a practice that makes it difficult for URA to detect.
The drop in sugar prices across the country is because of smuggling of sugar from neighbouring Kenya, Trade and Industry minister Amelia Kyambadde has said.
Kyambadde: Smuggling of duty free sugar has not only hurt the sugar industry but also the out growers of sugarcane whose livelihoods entirely depend on supply of sugarcane to the factories. #PlenaryUg
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Govt Abandons Plan to Tax all Cash WithdrawalsThe minister made the remarks while tabling a statement on the escalating sugar prices in the country, where she revealed that as much as the sugar prices had shot up, these have since dropped.
“The drastic drop in sugar price has been caused mainly by smuggling of duty free sugar from Kenya,
