Kenya's trade deficit hit Sh1.13 trillion last year from Sh853.68 billion a year earlier largely because of doubling of food imports and shipping in of transportation equipment such as SGR wagons and locomotives amid flat exports.
The deficit -- the gap between imports and exports -- widened by Sh277.25 billion compared with 2016, data from Kenya National Bureau of Statistics shows.
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