Exports to Rwanda fetch $83m
Jun 03, 2008
EXPORTS to Rwanda fetched $83m (about sh134b) last year, an official of the Uganda Export Promotion Board (UEPB) has said. “We exported several categories of products weighing 122.5 million kgs to Rwanda,†the UEPB’s director for information management systems, William Babigumira, said.
By David Muwanga
EXPORTS to Rwanda fetched $83m (about sh134b) last year, an official of the Uganda Export Promotion Board (UEPB) has said. “We exported several categories of products weighing 122.5 million kgs to Rwanda,†the UEPB’s director for information management systems, William Babigumira, said.
He said 7m kgs of vegetable fats and oils fetched $14m, iron and steel $15.1m, palm oil $4.2m, soap $3m, wheat $2.8m, maize $2.1m, rice $1.9m, cement $1.8m, plywood $1.7m and vanishes $1.1m in 2007.
However, The New Times of Rwanda in its May 14 issue had reported that Rwanda spent $7.3m in 2005 and $25m in 2006 on Ugandan exports.
“So many Ugandans are doing business in Rwanda. There is a huge market for our products,†the paper quoted Uganda’s trade state minister, Nelson Gaggawala Wambuzi, as saying.
“That is not a true figure as reported by The New Times. In 2006, we exported 39.3 million kgs of various products, which fetched $30.5m,†Babigumira said in interview.
Gaggawala attributed the growth in Ugandan exports to Rwanda’s joining the East African Community.
EXPORTS to Rwanda fetched $83m (about sh134b) last year, an official of the Uganda Export Promotion Board (UEPB) has said. “We exported several categories of products weighing 122.5 million kgs to Rwanda,†the UEPB’s director for information management systems, William Babigumira, said.
He said 7m kgs of vegetable fats and oils fetched $14m, iron and steel $15.1m, palm oil $4.2m, soap $3m, wheat $2.8m, maize $2.1m, rice $1.9m, cement $1.8m, plywood $1.7m and vanishes $1.1m in 2007.
However, The New Times of Rwanda in its May 14 issue had reported that Rwanda spent $7.3m in 2005 and $25m in 2006 on Ugandan exports.
“So many Ugandans are doing business in Rwanda. There is a huge market for our products,†the paper quoted Uganda’s trade state minister, Nelson Gaggawala Wambuzi, as saying.
“That is not a true figure as reported by The New Times. In 2006, we exported 39.3 million kgs of various products, which fetched $30.5m,†Babigumira said in interview.
Gaggawala attributed the growth in Ugandan exports to Rwanda’s joining the East African Community.