date:Oct 15, 2012
m buyers, Kenya recently imposed stricter standards on the quality of tea coming into Mombasa, and, according to Peter Kimanga, president of the East Africa Tea Traders Association, the World Trade Organization is attempting to raise tea standards worldwide.
You find some of the grades that are being imported into Kenya, in other countries, are not allowed to be exported, like India or Sri Lanka, says Kimanga. The WTO is trying to insist now that [the standards] should be made compulsory to all