Products qualifying for preferential tariff treatment in certain areas of
manufacturing, in EAC and COMESA regions.
The following are tables of products in EAC and COMESA regions which qualify for
Preferential Tariff Treatment.
These tables will always be updates to include more products from as many industries as
possible from the regional industries.
Qualifying products may at times not qualify due to change in the origin of materials
used in production.
Also, non qualifying products may at times qualify due to change in the origin of
materials used in production.
The tables follow bellow:
RWANDA
No.
Product(s)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
Mineral water
Industry
Sulfo Rwanda, Inyange Industries, Huye,
Gasabo, Alpine…
Fresh milk, butter milk, cream Nyabisindu, Inyange, Nyagatare& Rubirizi
and processed:
Rice
Kabuye,Bugarama,Rwamagana,Gikonko…
Cane Sugar
Kabuye Sugar
Fruits juice
Inyange Industries & Nyirangarama
Soap&diterngents,
Cosmetics, SULFO Rwanda Industries
Sweets, margarine, & Candles
Cleansing or facial tissues
Socobico factory
Plastic/rubber footwear
Soceite des chaussures Rwanda
Plastic (household & other)
Rwanda plastic industry
Cement
Kigali Cement, CIMERWA & Great Lakes
Cement Campony
Palm
oils
and
its Palmalat factory
fractions(refined)
Matresses
Rwanda foam, Kigali foam &Afrifoam.
Minimex
Maize flour
Bricks & Roofing tiles
Ruliba(Briqueterie Rwandaise)
Biscuits
ADMA Traiding Industry
16.
17.
18.
Spirits & wines
Beer
Handcrafts
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
Hides and skins
Wooden furniture
Sauce Tomate
Sosoma
Paints
24.
25.
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
3. Sopyrwa
5. Great Lakes Cement
6. Uprotour
9. Ufametal
Biogas Rec company
Check books
East African Granite Industries
Rwanda Cassava Milling Factory
SteelRwa Industries Limited
SRB Paper Manufacturers
34
Chillington Rwanda S.A.R.L
35
36
Flexi Foams Limited
Aqua-san Ltd
Covibar
Bralirwa
Gahaya
links,
Rwanda
Baskets
company…
Rwanda leather Industry
MANUMETAL
Sorwatom
DUHAMIC ADRI
Rwanda color &
Ameki color
Pyrethrum
Cement
Steel tubes and hollow sections
Steel tubes and hollow sections
Movero saucepans
Nord Sud Industries
Tiles, granites and slabs.
Cassava flour
Deformed bars
Papers for packing different products including
bread.
Spare parts of various categories and wheel
barrows
Mattresses
water tanks, septic tanks and mobile toilets.
37
ROTO LTD, Afritank
Plastic water tanks, septic tanks and mobile toilets.
38
RWANDA PLASTIC INDUSTRIES
Products include PVC pipes, crates, jerry cans,
basins, buckets and chairs.
Kenya.
No.
Product(s)
Industry
1.
galvanized and black iron sheets, cold
rolled coils.
steel bars from scrap, steel pipes and
hollow sections
steel bars from scrap, pipes and
hollow sections
fuel tanks and trailer bodies
Mabati Rolling Mills(MRM)
2.
3.
4
5.
6.
7.
Galvanized and black steel pipes and
hollow sections
hot rolled and flat bars from scrap
hot rolled and flat bars from scrap
Athi River steel plant
STEEL MAKERS LIMITED
Bachu Industries Limited, and Ocean
Engineering works ltd-Mombasa.
Insteel Limited
Apex steel Limited
Accurate steel Limited
Alluminium sufurias&kettles
Saucepans
Aluminium extrusions
Aluminium extrusions
Aluminium extrusions
Recessed fluorescent luminaire &
Switch boards.
Switch boards & Control panel.
Narcol Aluminium Rolling mills ltd
Kaluworks ltd.
Booth Extrusions ltd
General Aluminium Fabricators Ltd
Canon aluminium fabricators
Nationwide electrical company
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
Assorted cosmetics& sanitary towels
Assorted juice
Office furniture
Sanitary towels
Assorted
cleaning
material
chemicals(Spee Loob VLP, Acid Plus VA
35, NOBLA Multiclean, JONPRO Soloplus
NE, Soft care Silk,DIVOSAN Active VT5,
Softcare plus H400,Carpet Champoo)
Interconsumer
Del Monte
Kenya wood products ltd
African cotton Industries
Johnsondiversey EA ltd.
20.
21.
22.
Pylon signs
Kamambili
Tiles
23.
Plastics products; household and furniture
products, PVC pipes, plastic fittings and
accessories and plastic conduits, chairs and
tables, containers and caps (closures) for
packaging and bottle preforms.
Creative concepts ltd.
Umoja rubber products ltd.
A/J Ceramics & Smartdotlinx business
company ltd.
Kenplast, Kenpoly Manufacturers Limited,
Metro plastics Kenya Limited, COMPLAST
Industries LTD, CROWN INDUSTRIES LTD,
SAFEPARK, GENERAL PLASTICS
LIMITED,
8.
9.
10
11
12
13
14
Specialized power systems ltd
26.
27.
28.
Sanitary towels
Wines and spirits(Viceroy Brandy,
Amarula Cream, Tropical Breeze Ice, Hunters
Choice Whisky, Kibao Vodka and Yatta
Wines & Grape Juice.
Reels nice &soft tissue
GLASSES
Switch boards & Control panel.
29.
30.
31.
32.
ORGANIC SOLUTION RDA
Soya bean oil
Sweets
Cement
33.
34.
35.
36
37
38
Salt
Bata shoe
Plastics
Skimmed powder milk
Vehicle batteries
Nido, Nescafé , Milo, Nestlé drinking
chocolate, Cerevita, Nestea, Nan,
Cerelac, Maggi, Nesquick, Nestum,
KitKat, Nestlé cereals, Cremora,
Moca, Ricoffy
Scratch voucher cards
Tiles(ceramic wall & floor tiles)
24.
25.
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
African cotton Industries
KWAL Co.
Chandaria Industries ltd.
IMPALA GLASS INDUSTRIES LIMITED
Power technics.
ORGANIC SOLUTIONS LTD
BIDCO OIL REFINERIES LIMITED
KENAFRIC INDUSTRIES LTD
Bamburi, Mombasa, Athi River and East
Africa Portland cement industries
KRYSTALLINE SALT LTD
BATA SHOE CO. (KENYA)
METRO PLASTICS KENYA LTD
Cremmaries cooperatives
Associated manufacturers (EA)
Nestle Kenya Ltd.
Ellams Products Ltd
Flamingo Tiles Ltd Kenya
STEEL, BARS, TUBES & HOLLOW SECTIONS.
CERAMIC TILES
PVC PIPES
CORE ARMOURED COPPER CABLE
Assorted soft drinks & tooth pastes
Tarpaulinin canvas
Polythene sheeting.
TONONOKA STEEL ROLLING
SAJ CERAMICS LTD
ELSON PLASTICS OF KENYA
EAST AFRICAN CABLES
Glaxosmithkline ltd.
Tarpo Industries
Brush manufactures ltd.
48
49
50
Hollow sections & steel structures
CHEMICALS PRODUCTS
OFFICE FURNITURE
51
52
53
54
SPRINGS
PERSIL POWDER SOAP AND SIMBA PADS
SULPHURIC ACID
MULTISCAFF WEDGFIT SCAFFOLDING
SYSTEM
Zenith steel Fabricators ltd.
SYNRESINS LIMITED
MUNSHIRAM INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
MACHINES LTD
AUTO SPRING MANUFACTURERS LTD
BAMALE PARTNER
PAN AFRICA CHEMICALS LTD
STEEL STRUCTURES LTD
Uganda
No.
Product(s)
Industry
1.
Hot rolled steel bars from scrap &
Hollow Sections/Pipes
Hot rolled steel bars from scrap &
Hollow Sections/Pipes
Reinforcement bars from scrap,
Barbed wires and razor wires, Hollow
sections/tube profiles and
Nails and chain links produced from
the wire rods whose diameter has
been reduced to 3mm or less.
Stainless steel water tanks, Hollow
sections/tube profiles, and Nails,
wire mesh and BRC weld mesh
produced from the wire rods whose
diameter has been reduced to 3mm
or less;
Hollow sections/tube profiles
TEMBO STEELS U LIMITED
2.
3
4
5
Steel Rolling Mills ltd.
Roofings
Steel and Tubes ltd
Uganda Baati
6
Nails and wire mesh produced from Roofclad ltd
the wire rods whose diameter has
been reduced to 3mm or less;
7
Kitchen ware products including Shumuk Aluminium Industries ltd
saucepans, kettles, frying pans,
tiffins;
Bicycles
Roadmaster cycles(U) ltd
Paints
Crown Buildings&Products ltd.
Sadolin Paints (U) Ltd.
STAIRCASE HARDRAIL AND
TURQUAZ HOME DECORATION
BALCONY
Plastics bags
Africa polysack Industries ltd
Plastic products
Nice House of Plastics, Crestank,
Multiple Industries Ltd, Gentex
Enterprises Ltd, AK PLASTICS (U)
LTD, VISA Plastics, Mukwano,
Quality Plastics (U) Ltd.,Nile
Plastics Ind. Ltd.
Plain empty boxes
MAKSS packaging industries ltd.
Spirits
Uganda Breweries ltd.
Bonapo Wines, Rozella Wine, MBS
Wines
fruit Agencies Ltd ( Romeo wine)
Beer
Nile Breweries Jinja, Uganda
8.
9
11
12
13
14
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
Breweries-Port
Bell,
Parambot
Brewers Ltd.
Sweets
Kakira Sweets
Biscuits
Britannia, Riham Ind. . Ahmed
Raza Foods Ind.Ltd, Uganda
Biscuits Co.
Roofing tiles
Uganda Clays-Kajjansi, Lweza
Clays, African Clays, Kiwa
Industries.
Soft drinks
Crown Beverages, Century
Bottling Co. Ltd.
Matresses
Vita foam, Crest foam, Megha
Ind.Tuf foam, Royal foam, Gulu
foam.
Palm oils
Bidco
Cement
Tororo & Hima Cement Industries.
Plastic footwear
Uganda Bata Shoe co., Rocky Ind.
Ltd., Mukoko Investments (u) Ltd.,
Sunshine International (U) Ltd.,
East Star International Ltd.,
Shalong Investments 9U0 Ltd.
Exercise books
Picfare and Oscar Industries.
Candles
Great Seas (U) Ltd
Soaps
Mukwano, Samona Pdts ,Movit
Pdts, ,Mwanamugimu, Unilever,
Bidco (u), Mbale Soap Works Ltd.
industries.
Fruits juice
Britannia, House of Eden (U) Ltd.,
Jakana Foods Ltd, Reco Ind.,
Elgonia Ltd, Delight (U) Ltd.
industries.
Cane Sugar
Lugazi, Kakira and Kinyara
factories
Fresh milk, butter milk, cream and Sameer Agriculture & Livestock
processed
Ltd., G.B.K, Highland, Jessa Farm
Ltd., Alpha Dairies
Mineral water
Rwenzori, Aqua Fresh, Blue Wave,
Wavah water, Highland, Riham,
G.B.K, Sipi Water , Hema
Beverages Ltd industries.
Cooking oil
A.K. Oils & Fats (U) ltd.
Cosmetics
Avis Beauty Pdts Ltd, Desire
Beauty Pdts Ltd., Mukwano
Personal Care Produce Ltd., Movit
Pdts Ltd,. Samona Pdts.
30.
31.
32.
33
34
35
36
Lime
Poultry and products
Maize four
Salt
Tents
Chairs & tables for kids
Tiles(ceramic wall & floor tiles)
Mwanamugimu, Nevia co. Ltd,
Uganda Klere Ind.Ltd., Wispro (u)
Ltd., Nile Cosmetics (U).
Dura & Muhokya(Kasese)
UGACHICK POULTRY BREEDERS LTD
MAGANJO GRAIN MILLERS LTD
Katwe
Tarpco & Tents African Uganda ltd
Anatolia Enterprise Uganda
Flamingo Tiles Ltd Uganda
Tanzania
No.
Products
Industry
1.
Hot rolled steel bars from scrap
2.
3
Bicyeles
Trailers and Tanks
Nyakato Steel Mills, and Sayona
Steel ltd.
National Bicycle co. ltd
SuperDoll Trailer Manufacture
Co(T) Ltd
4
Fuel tanks and Water tanks, Silos
and Billboards.
5
3.
4.
5.
6.
Black pipes and hollow sections
Plastics products
Plastics products
Boxes, cartons and other paper
packing containers.
Cement
7.
Coffee products
8.
9.
Beer
Sisal products
10.
11.
Textile products
Sugar cane products
12.
13
14
Funiture products
MATTRESS
Petroleum jelly & Glyceline
National engineering company
SITA STEEL ROLLING LTD
AFRICAN POLYMERS TANZANAI
SIMBA PLASTCS CO.LTD
TANZANIA PRINTERS LIMITED
Tanga, Twiga and Mbeya cement
Companies.
Tanzania Coffee Curing Company
Limited coffee
Tanzania Breweries
Tanzania Cordage Limited sisal
ropes
Sunflag Tanzania Limited textiles
Sugar Development Corporation
sugar, molasses
Furniture Industries Limited
Vitanda Manufacturing
Tanga Pharmaceutical
KHANGA
DURU SOAP
CHEWING GUM,WHETHER OR NOT
SUGARCOATED(PIPI)
HOUSEHOLD ARTICLES &
HYGIENIC OR TOILET ARTICLES OF
PLASTICS
PVC PIPES
COSMETICS
SOFT DRINKS
ROOFING TILES
DISTILLED SPIRITS(KONYAGI)
BEER
CANDLES
MANGO JUICE, Apple juice, orange &
mixtures of juices
Soap
Plastic products; household, pipes,
crates, buckets, preforms for water
and juice, chairs and water tanks.
Cosmetics & plastic containers
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
CORKS AND STOPPERS
Nida/Karibu Textile Mills
Murzah Oil
Azam
Jambo Plastics ltd/Cello
Industries TanzaniaLtd
Falcon Industries Ltd
Tanga Pharmaceutical
Azam
Sunda (T) Ltd
Tanzania Distilleries Ltd
Serengeti
O.K Plastics
Azam
Murza oil
CELLO INDUSTRIES (T) LTD, DPI
Simba Ltd, SILAFRICA TZ
LIMITED, TRIDEA COSMETICS
LTD.
Nampak Tanzania Ltd
Burundi
No.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Products
Cement
Movero saucepans
Spirits
Beer and soft drinks
Industries Agro Alimentaires de Buterere
Alfa CD Technology
Sosumo
Tanzania Business Company
Burundi Tabacco Company
PVC pipes, Bap Aluzinc (Galvanized gutters) and
metallic tubes.
water pipes
plastic crates.
Industry
BUCECO ltd.
METALUSA
VODOKA PREMIDIS
Bracel
Pasteurized milk & yorghurt
Wooden furniture
Sugar
Sugar
Cigarettes
UTEMA – TRAVHYDRO SA
DIMAC SARL.
BURUNDI PLASTIC INDUSTRY
Products qualifying for preferential tariff treatment in selected
areas of manufacturing in COMESA region
Egypt
No.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Products
Tyres & tubes
Photocopy papers
Photocopy paper
Office furniture
Brown sugar
6
7
8
9
Televisions
CIGARETTES
LAMPS
ALUMINUM WINDOWS AND GYPSUM BOARDS, CERAMIC
PRODUCTS
10
Glasses
11
Steel products
12
Aluminium extrusions and products
13
Bicycles & Motorbikes
14
Cables
Industry
Alexanria/Perelli tyre co.S.A
Papyrus company(Allam&Co)
API.Youssef Allam
SAMA Trading &Marketing
Egyptian Sugar and Integrated
Industry
LG TVS
EASTERN COMPANY SAE
PLAY AFRICAN GROUP CO
CERAMICA CLEOPATRA GROUP
National Glass Company, Sphinx Glass,
Misr Glass Manufacturing, APG's plant,
Ezz Steel,
Alexandria National Iron and Steel,
Ezz-Dekhela,
Kouta Group,
Int’l St. R.M.-Beshai,
Delta Steel,
Suez Co. Al-Koumy,
Egyptian Metal Hatem,
Egyptian Iron& Steel,
Al-Said Steel,
Menouefya Steel,
Egyptalum's aluminium plant.
Industrial Engineering Co. (INDE)
International Cables Company
Mauritius
No.
Industry
Product(s)
1.
Steel tubes and pipes
Apollo Tubes Limited -Mauritius
Madagascar
No.
Industry
Product(s)
1.
Societe Manantsoa SARL
Garments/clothes .