TRA vows to end sugar smuggling

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 ...

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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.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

31 Jan

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.

 

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

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.

 

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

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.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

21 Feb

End smuggling, investors urge govt

Manufacturers and other players in the economy have urged the government to embrace a holistic approach to curbing the menace of smuggling.

 

10 years ago

AllAfrica.Com

16 Dec

TRA Impounds Smuggled Contraband Sugar

TRA Impounds Smuggled Contraband Sugar
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TANZANIA Revenue Authority (TRA) has confiscated 1,158 bags of contraband sugar between September and December, as a crackdown against smuggling of the product intensifies. The TRA Director of Taxpayer Services and Education, Richard Kayombo ...
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10 years ago

TheCitizen

03 Mar

We’ll end albino killings, vows JK

>President Jakaya Kikwete has expressed shock over the fresh wave of killings of people with albinism in the country, saying this barbaric cruelty, which has also given Tanzania a bad image, cannot be tolerated. In his first remarks since the renewed wave of attacks on albinos, which has subjected Tanzania to global condemnation, President Kikwete sought to absolve the government from blame, saying past efforts by his administration had stamped out the vice.

 

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