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<FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>You have hit the nail on the head Phares. There needs to be a law that if a local product is available, all sellers can sell the imported variety of the same product <B><I>only</I></B> if the local product is also sold side by side. These being cost conscious times, local products will definitely be bought more often over imported ones.<BR>
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However the question that begs to be answered is, why are local products not making their way to local shelves? Kenya grows amazing export quality fruits and vegetables, which get ... exported! And then we import good looking oranges, strawberries, peaches etc while someone else in another country is eating equally good looking and tasting Kenyan fruit.<BR>
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On 11/1/11 6:23 PM, "Phares Kariuki" <pkariuki@gmail.com> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><FONT COLOR="#000066"><FONT FACE="Trebuchet MS">We also need a thriving chamber of commerce. One only needs to walk into a supermarket to see imported fruit juice side by side to locally produced fruit juice. <BR>
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On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Harry Delano <harry@comtelsys.co.ke> wrote:<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><FONT FACE="Arial">Isn't it strange that we from this resourceful continent have some nerve to go shopping for eggs and chicken<BR>
soup across the Atlantic.., including Oil...?<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><FONT FACE="Arial">I just had a thought, that we activate some lively lobbying by our High commissioners, Commerce/Trade attaches <BR>
etc in these countries, to do us the needful and establish new trade routes/destinations for us here on this continent.<BR>
Do we summon them back again for some briefing or, Bw Ps..?<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><FONT FACE="Arial">Harry<BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="100%"></FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><B>From:</B> kictanet-bounces+harry=comtelsys.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke [<a href="mailto:kictanet-bounces+harry">mailto:kictanet-bounces+harry</a> <a href="mailto:kictanet-bounces%2Bharry"><mailto:kictanet-bounces%2Bharry></a> =comtelsys.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Andrea Bohnstedt<BR>
<B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, November 01, 2011 5:39 PM<BR>
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<B>Cc:</B> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<BR>
<B>Subject:</B> Re: [kictanet] Ndemo's Presidential Debate Final Report?<BR>
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Speak for yourself, Phares - I'm a loyal five-year-plus client of Dorman's ground coffee :) <BR>
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(but it drives me demented that KICC et al serve crappy instant coffee when this country grows some of the best coffee in the world) <BR>
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On 1 November 2011 17 <tel:2011%2017> :34, Phares Kariuki <pkariuki@gmail.com> wrote:<BR>
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On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 5:19 PM, <bitange@jambo.co.ke> wrote:<BR>
> Before we go into complex matters like bonds there are other opportunitities.<BR>
> Ghana imports 90% of its chicken consumption from Brazil. Gabon Imports 100% of eggs from France. Congo with its diamonds and Uranium imports its supplies including soap and cooking oil from France. When I say we must start fighting Europe for Africa I do not mean arms. Let us wake and compete. If we have no planes to fly supplies into Congo let us carry them on our heads to Congo.<BR>
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> KQ goes to Djibouti without any horticulture yet Djibouti buys its food supplies from France. Sometimes a re-shipment of Kenya's horticulture into Djibouti. We send flowers to Nethwerlands then they are re-shipped into Africa. We export coffee beens into UK then we inport Nescaffe. Can we wake up and fight a fair and simple was on Africa's resources.<BR>
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Agreed. We need to find simple efficient ways of trading. My point on bonds was on raising capital reserves to shore up such trading, within Africa, eliminating the need for donor funding. Just as a further illustration <a href="http://www.starbucksstore.com/Kenya/011009408,default,pd.html.">http://www.starbucksstore.com/Kenya/011009408,default,pd.html.</a> 1 KG of Kenyan coffee is roughly 2900 KES. We will happily re-import the Starbucks/Nescafe/Nespresso etc and ignore Dormans on our supermarket shelves. <BR>
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