Tanzanian Government Restricts Import Of Tyres

The Tanzanian Government has restricted the import of tyres in a protectionist measure. A spokesman said that businessmen have been taking advantage of consumer ignorance by importing “cheap, sub-standard products” and also used tyres, which is illegal. This has threatened the country’s only domestic tyre factory, General Tyre (EA), which has been unable to sell all of its annual production of around 330,000 tyres.