Several shops and businesses in Nairobi’s CBD remained closed early today as traders joined a nationwide shutdown protesting KRA’s revised customs valuation benchmark for imported goods. The new benchmark raises the minimum valuation for a 40-foot container of consolidated general cargo from Sh2.5 million to Sh3.2 million. Tensions escalated as police fired teargas to disperse angry small-scale traders demonstrating against the increase.

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