Smuggling of sugar causes Sh462bn loss

>Out-growers, factories and sugar dealers in the country have continued to suffer due to lack of control and proper regulations of sugar, the Parliament heard yesterday.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

15 Jan

TRA calls for end to sugar smuggling

Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) has called for integrated efforts to control current rampant sugar smuggling after it seized 40 bags of the commodity offshore at Kunduchi area last week.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

22 Oct

Rules tightened to deal with sugar smuggling

The gov­ernment has amended sugar regulations to allow bulk pro­curement system in importing the sweetener to address the challenge of illegal imports.

 

10 years ago

IPPmedia

16 Dec

TRA vows to end sugar smuggling

TRA vows to end sugar smuggling
IPPmedia
The Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) has vowed to end smuggling of sugar and various other goods into the country, a crime it believes is the work of a syndicate of dishonest traders and public officers. The watchdog agency has admitted that this is a ...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

03 May

Smuggling sours market for Africa sugar producers

>Africa’s sugar producers want governments to tighten border controls across the continent and tackle sugar smuggling, a problem they said was helping drive down local sugar prices.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

04 Feb

LAKE ZONE: Sugar smuggling hurts us, says investor

>Thousands of tonnes of sugar being smuggled into the country is threatening local manufacturers’ business, an investor has said.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

16 Jan

EDITORIAL: Curb rampant smuggling to boost sugar industry

>Tanzania has the capacity to produce more sugar than its requirements, yet it is not, the major reason being that our plantations are heavily rain dependent.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

02 Dec

Five arraigned for smuggling tortoises

Five people were yesterday charged with attempt to smuggle 201 live tortoises through Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA).

 

11 years ago

Daily News

31 Jan

'Clove smuggling still a problem'

'Clove smuggling still a problem'
Daily News
DESPITE improved security surveillance in the past three-years, clove smuggling remains a big challenge in the islands, members of the Zanzibar House of Representatives were informed. “Clove smuggling is still a problem. We have to work together to ...

 

10 years ago

BBC

Ivory smuggling suspect arrested

A Kenyan businessman suspected of being behind an international ivory smuggling ring has been arrested in Tanzania.

 

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