{"id":242260,"date":"2026-08-26T19:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-traders-to-protest-over-sh700000-increase-in-container-customs-benchmark\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T19:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:02:07","slug":"kenya-traders-to-protest-over-sh700000-increase-in-container-customs-benchmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-traders-to-protest-over-sh700000-increase-in-container-customs-benchmark\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Traders to Protest Over Sh700,000 Increase in Container Customs Benchmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Nairobi \u2014 Small-scale traders in Nairobi&#8217;s Kamukunji, Gikomba and Nyamakima markets have threatened to shut their businesses nationwide on Friday, August 28, in protest over a new Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) customs valuation benchmark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The traders are opposed to the increase in the minimum benchmark for a 40-foot container of consolidated cargo from Sh2.5 million to Sh3.2 million, effective August 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The 28 percent increase adds Sh700,000 to the benchmark used to assess consolidated imports,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608260486.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Small-scale traders in Nairobi&#8217;s Kamukunji, Gikomba and Nyamakima markets have threatened to shut their businesses nationwide on Friday, August 28, in protest over a new Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) customs valuation benchmark. The traders are opposed to the increase in the minimum benchmark for a 40-foot container of consolidated cargo from Sh2.5 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":242261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,15595,7743,6944,6721,4688,430,257,2194,55279,254,8583],"class_list":["post-242260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-container","tag-customs","tag-increase","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-protest","tag-sh700000","tag-south-africa-today","tag-traders"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}