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The Association of Sugar Producers of Mozambique (APAMO) is asking for an exemption from Value Added Tax (VAT) to make sugar more accessible to families given the increase in demand following the Covid-19 pandemic.
“In the context of our response to Covid-19, it would probably be useful to have measures that allow sugar to be more accessible to families”, said the president of APAMO, João Jeque.
“When people are at home, they consume more food. Families do not have all the basic foods available at home and the substitute consumption they turn to is sugar”, explained João Jeque.
The sugar industry is among those most affected by the crisis caused by the new coronavirus. In some parts of the country, cases of shortages and rising prices of the product, mainly brown sugar, were recorded.
With the State of emergency coming into force from April 1st until the 30th of this month, sugar, oil and soap producers complain about restrictive measures imposed by the presidential decree.
