Nigeria: '100 Percent Duty on Wheat Flour Takes Effect July 1'

27 April 2012

As part of government's efforts to encourage local consumption of cassava bread, the Federal Government yesterday said that from July 1 this year it would impose a 65 per cent levy on importion of wheat flour.

Speaking in Abuja, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, said that the move would bring the effective duty on the product to 100 per cent.

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