Trade PS Chris Kiptoo. FILE PHOTO | NMG
Kenya will use next week’s trade expo in
Kazakhstan as a platform to diversify its share of the export market to
the country from the current 0.16 per cent.
Trade PS
Chris Kiptoo said the import value of Kazakhstan is $30 billion annually
and Kenya accounts for only Sh47 million of the market share
.
He said tea forms 97 per cent of the total exports to the country.
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He said tea forms 97 per cent of the total exports to the country.
“We
are going to use the expo as an opportunity to boost export of other
goods to Kazakhstan, which is a potential market for Kenyan goods,” said
Dr Kiptoo at a media briefing in Nairobi on Tuesday.
The
government, he said, aims to export of fresh produce, which accounts
for $1.1 billion of Kazakhstani imports and textile and apparel that
stands at $900 million.
“We have a lot of fresh
produce that we can export to Kazakhstan, instead of relying on
Netherlands, which is our major market at the moment for these
commodities, we can diversify to other markets as well,” he said.
Kazakhstan is among the top 10 buyers of Kenyan tea.
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