Kenya living a lie

I am going through this document comparing trade statistics between various countries.If you select a country you will see its import and export value in terms of USD.This is based on 2016 data.For unknown reason Kenyan data is missing for comparison with others but the rest of the countries that we trade closely with can show how much they imported and exported to KE.In my view our neighbours benefit alot from us.

We are considered to have the best infrastructure,education,ports and all that give us the advantage at trading but what world bank is depicting here is that we are too full of ourselves and continue to think we are ahead while our neighbours take that advantage and boost themselves economically.Uganda and TZ seem to export much to us,yet we boast that we are the trade bigwigs.

Haina malwares so akanyal click people you are safe…

https://globaledge.msu.edu/countries/tanzania

Rwanda are now banning mitumba to promote their own. Here, motivated by election erections, we thought, we’d better retain some 10,000 hawkers in gikomba instead of banning mitumba and creating over 100,000 jobs. Hivo ndio tunaovertakiwa pole pole tu

We exported $5.94 billion and imported $17.25 billion in 2017. Soma hapa https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/economy/High-food--SGR-imports-push-trade-deficit-to-Sh1-13-trillion/3946234-4328216-ci6scdz/index.html

Dang ! ! !

just out of curiosity, how will banning mitumba create more jobs, I thought it is the opposite.

This is nonsense. The mtumba sector employs more than 10000 kenyans, plus when you look at the industry in its entirety, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was responsible for employing between 0.5 and 1 million Kenyans, both directly and indirectly. From the moment a mtumba container lands at the port, to when a retailer hangs clothes in their shop, thousands of people have benefitted. I don’t understand why we have to ban mtumba just to prop up our inefficient textile industries.

how does banning mtumba create more jobs

Do you realize hiyo biashara hapa Kenya iko a good % of TZ guys

It promotes local clothes industry and attract more employees due to increase in demand of the product.

should I even try to dignify your question with an answer?

After factory being set to produce clothes, people will be hired, they will pay PAYE, they will rent nearby houses - govt will tax the landlord, they will shop in nearby supermarket during payday - pay taxes for goods , supermarket hire more staff (who will end up paying PAYE too, then whoever buys clothes from factory will pay tax in form of sales tax .The chain is tremendously impeccable if you think of it . This taxes should end up providing good health and social services to its citizens if managed well. With good health services , citizens will be healthy , and being healthy means work more in factory producing more clothes . It’s complicated when you think of it .

Compare with mtumba sales that has no sales tax apart from duty the mtumba guy pays at the port which ends up in corrupt pockets that can’t be traced.

I know you are sane enough to connect a mitumba ban to textile and leather industries growth and down to cotton farming and pastoralism

makes sense but our market is really price sensitive , all good if the clothes are affordable to majority of the popullation

Na hii hapa chini utasema nini?

[SIZE=7]U.S. Trade Deficit With China and Why It’s So High[/SIZE]
[SIZE=6]The Real Reason American Jobs Are Going to China[/SIZE]
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The U.S. trade deficit with China was $375 billion in 2017. The trade deficit exists because U.S. exports to China were only $130 billion while imports from China were $506 billion.

The reason I asked you the question is because I do business in local clothes, make them and sell them, its not about uhuru or appointments its just a sober discussion about an issue.

Don’t you think if we ban mitumba guys will just import cheap clothes from china, I mean producing clothes locally is very expensive, for instance the cost of producing a pair of denim trousers locally comes to around 700 bob add the other expenses and your margin and the lest you can sell that thing is at around 1500, compare that to china where they do their pair at around 70 bob, even adding importation charges the ting lands on our shore at around 300 bob.

Even for EPZ, in kenya a pair of denim is produced at roughly 200-300 bob and that is factoring in the exemptions, competing with bangladesh, or china or combodia in production is very hard, and not only in textile in all other areas.

Now back to mitumba, don’t you think its better to have mitumba that are cheap enough to cloth the poor folks and provides some income to people in markets all over the country, than having new clothes from china that will barely last a few months.

true also it would uplift cotton farmers, the ripple effect would be felt by many.

these Chinese… this country is literally on its knees giving these mofos a deep throat blowjob

People will have to dress anyways . They will have no option since mtumba imenyongwa but comply . If more industries open because of demand , then expect competition to be stiff and price will go down… it’s just market . The price sencitivity things comes to play if there is an option out (in this case if mtumba keeps coming ) . It’s just market …

Let me tell you a sad story my wife told me yesterday . My sister lives trumpistan. She bought lots of clothes from one label company for kids called “children’s place” she was proud to have bought clothes for nephew and niece . So madam took one of the clothes and checked where it was made from…SHOCK “MADE IN KENYA”. So this cloth left kenya went to USA, they put higher price on it, and sister brought it back to where it came from at 15X marked manufacturing price . So she paid the cost of flying it to usa with no addition of value . Investigating further I realized they were made at EPZ, 2 km from where a plot I bought many years ago.

Question : whose fooling who?

Yes and the cotton farmers will go to the supermarket to buy more and more staff hired and the cycle continues … thanks for pointing out this

So you ban mtumba and force us to wear some ugly clothes as if we’re in a communist country? Some stores like Woolworths sell new clothes, why hasn’t mtumba put them out of business? Our main problem is corruption. Everything will be mismanaged, and we’ll still end up paying more for clothes. Before mtumba came along, people had Sunday best, the one pair of clothes you’d reserve for special occasions, and when your clothes got torn, you’d take them to the tailor akuwekee kiraka, because buying new clothes wasn’t as easy as buying mtumba is today.