Regional cement manufacturers ask for reduced tariffs

By TOM MAGUMBA

A proposal by ce­ment manufac­turers for a dou­ble tax duty on imported cement received a cold reception by region­al governments for the fourth year running. Since 2008 cement man­ufacturers in the region have been asking govern­ments to protect them from the onslaught of cheaper cement flooding the market from India, Pa­kistan, Egypt, China and the United Arab Emirates. As finance regional minis­ters readout their budgets last week this issue was conspicuously

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