Zimbabwe to export soap into Angola, Mozambique

United Refineries

Limited (URL) is to begin

exports of a new range

of soaps into Angola and

Mozambique.

URL chief executive

officer Busisa Moyo told

Zimbabwean media that

the company would be

exporting soaps under the

brands of Image, Vogue

and Fresh Health Joy.

The packaging is

inscribed in English and

Portuguese.

In March 2014

Grindrod Trading of

South Africa acquired a

51% stake in URL, which

provided the funding for

increasing capacity at the

URL plants.

Moyo, who is also

Confederation of

Zimbabwean

Industries

president,

has said that

Zimbabwe’s

cooking oil

producers are

able to meet the

country’s demand

for edible oils after

government imposed

levies on imports.

The Zimbabwean

government has imposed

a customs duty of 40%

and 25% surtax or

US$0.50 per litre charge

– whichever is greater – on

cooking oil imports.

This will impact on

volumes of freight going

into the country.

In 2014 Zimbabwe

imported US$41 million

worth of edible oils.