Sessional Paper No. 91 of 1956/57 on the East African Bag and Cordage Company.

Abstract

The East Africa Bag & Cordage Company (formerly Sisal Products Ltd), having established a soft fibre mill for the manufacture of containers has found great difficulty in competing with containers imported from overseas at a lower price. This difficulty is due mainly to the fact that an export tax exists on raw jute in the countries of origin, but the manufactured products are not subject to such tax. The result is that the landed price in East Africa of the amount of raw jute required to manufacture a bag is very nearly the same as the landed price of a manufactured bag…