During the review period, Tanzania implemented new limits on grain trade with its neighbors in the East African Community bloc, laws that significantly curtailed the entry of maize into Kenya.
Kenya’s imports from Tanzania have decreased at the fastest rate in seven years, during which time fresh trade disputes caused Nairobi to avoid Dar es Salaam and purchase more goods from as far away as Egypt. In response to limits on cereal exports to Kenya, according to a report by the Tanzanian news outlet The Citizen, expenditure on products trucked from Tanzania in the six months leading up to June fell by approximately a third.
At the height of the disputes between Nairobi and the government of former Tanzanian President John Magufuli (dead), imports for the first half of the year had dropped 36.99 percent to Sh6.06 billion.
