China put its exports to Kenya at Sh1.3 trillion, nearly twice the Sh672 billion that KRA captured as the value of imports from the country.
By
Vincent Owino
Business & Technology Reporter
Nation Media Group
Goods worth Sh629 billion purchased from China and imported into Kenya in 2025 do not appear in the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) import records, raising questions about possible massive revenue leakages in what Nairobi earns from the shipment of goods from its largest trading partner.
Experience has shown that arbitrary benchmark values imposed without regard to actual transaction values undermine the principles…
Kenya’s key purchases from India include pharmaceutical products, rice and refined petroleum fuels.
The dispute arose after KRA audited Sybrin Kenya for the period between January 2016 and December 2019 before issuing a VAT…
Data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) shows that the deficit in merchandise trade grew 17.4 percent to…
The lower debt service bill came in a year when Nairobi secured a deal with Beijing to convert three dollar-denominated SGR loans…
KRA has destroyed contraband goods worth Sh218 million that were seized during coordinated crackdowns in Nairobi and the Coast…
