SMALL to medium enterprises (SMEs) have called for dialogue with local manufacturers to reach an understanding that would allow both parties to make a profit. The call comes in the wake of the recently gazetted Statutory Instrument (S.I.) 64 of 2016, which restricts the importation of a range of products that are manufactured locally. These include maize meal, cooking oil, milk, butters, jams, mayonnaise, cheese, yoghurts, ice creams, coffee creamers, washing soaps, beauty creams and petroleum jellies.

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