Kenya will now export avocados, french beans, mangoes, peanuts, and hides and skins to China. Other products that have been approved are legumes, vegetables and fruits, herbs, meat, bixa, macademia nuts, gum Arabica, myrrh and Asian vegetables like chilli and karela. Waita said Kenya and China have also formally launched their technical working group to commence negotiations on the expansion of trade opportunities and review of tariff and non-tariff barriers. This is after President Uhuru Kenyatta expressed concern about the trade imbalance when he visited China for bilateral talks last week. Read: Uhuru takes on China, demands 'mutually beneficial' trade dealsAlso read: Uhuru asks China to give preferential treatment for African goods

Source: The Star November 09, 2018 12:00 UTC