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Export tax on the verge of killing Zambian crocodile industry

19/12/2019

The Zambian Crocodile Farmers Association (ZCFA) has said the country is in danger of losing all the benefit of its crocodile sector because of a 10% export duty that the government imposed at the start of 2019. In 2018, Zambia exported almost 32,000 farmed crocodile skins, but projections the 2019 total will be 22,000 this year; this would be...

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