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    "id": 251147,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kirwa",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Agriculture",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kipruto Rono Kirwa",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The list of registered companies currently licensed to import to sugar is appended herewith as Annex One. There are 63 companies that are registered to import raw mill sugar, and 33 companies that are registered as importers of white refined sugar. (b) The amount of sugar imported from January, 2006 to March, 2006, is 45,000 metric tonnes, as per Appendix Two that I will lay before the House. (c) The following measures have been taken to safeguard the local sugar industry:- (i) The COMESA safeguard measures allowing only 200,000 metric tonnes of sugar access to Kenyan market per year is one of the safeguard measures. The measures were arrived at during the COMESA Council of Ministers at its meeting in December, 2003. (ii) The Sugar (2003) Regulations administered by the Kenya Sugar Board (KSB) and amended by Legal Notice No.2 (2006), set the rules for importation. (c) The rules that govern exportation of agricultural commodities from one COMESA country to the other are as follows:- (i) The products must satisfy vito-sanitary and vito-sadinary regulations that have been internationally accepted. (ii) The commodity must be wholly produced by the Member country to attract duty-free status. (iii) No trans-shipment from one country to another. (iv) Any value added to the commodity must attract 35 per cent duty. An example is wheat 764 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES April 27, 2006 flour."
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