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Kenya to ban imports of low-quality leather

04/05/2016

Kenya is to implement stricter guidelines on leather imports to ensure that they are of a high quality. Yassin Awale, an advisor to the ministry of industrialisation & enterprise development, said that the ministry is working alongside the Kenya Bureau of Standards to ensure low-quality leather products are kept out of the Kenyan market....

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