Smuggling sours market for Africa sugar producers

>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.

TRA vows to end sugar smuggling
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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 ...

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

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.

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

>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.

Sugar imports will continue to bridge the gap between demand and supply, Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives minister Stephen Wassira says.

The East Africa Cement Producers Association (EACPA) has appointed Reinhardt Swart the Managing Director of Tanga Cement Company the chair of its Tanzanian chapter, with effect from 1 August 2015 for the next three years.
The East Africa Cement Producers Association (EACPA) brings together cement manufacturing companies from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi.  EACPA TZ is a chapter of the East Africa Association which includes Kenya, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, and Tanzania. EACPA...

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Teachers gives up sugar to raise money for pupils' visit to Africa
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A teacher from Hammersmith has raised funds to help rebuild and improve educational facilities in Tanzania. Imogen Riley, head of geography at Portland Place School in Westminster, quit sugar in a bid to raise money for her students to fly to Babati ...