For a person who claims to be an economist and a Kenyan, your knowledge on matters economic is quite pedestrian. In the first eight months of 2019 Kenyan exports to the eac rose to a three year high of Sh77.32 billion. Kenya imports raw materials from eac countries but exports value added products to eac countries which fetch a higher price than raw materials eg We import a lot of ground nuts from Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda to plug a deficit, but we export peanut butter and peanut oils which fetch a higher price than the raw peanuts to these eac countries.
We export confectionary even after importing raw industrial sugar from eac countries eg chocolates, cakes, biscuits, candy etc.