The government is buoyant that despite its fragility, the industrial sector has the capacity to narrow the country's huge trade deficit to help the country achieve a middle income status by the year 2020.
Minister of Trade and Industry, Francois Kanimba, believes that the sector's contribution to Growth Domestic Product-GDP which has been growing in recent years indicates that with more reforms, the sector would bring in more foreign exchange receipts needed to narrow the import-export deficit.
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