News and market insights
This page brings together official summit announcements and useful context on Kenya-China tea trade, value addition, investment and technology.
Summit updates
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What Chinese buyers look for in African tea
Orthodox against CTC, leaf grades, packaging and traceability expectations, and where Kenyan supply currently meets them.
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Registration is open. Here is what follows.
What registering does, what the delegate portal will do, when stand booking opens, and the timetable for fees, speakers and the full programme.
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Why the summit is at KICC, and why the expo is in a tent
What the Kenyatta International Convention Centre offers a trade delegation, why 146 stands go up on the grounds rather than inside, and what exhibitors should expect.
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Kenya's tea exports grew 10 per cent in 2025. China took two per cent of them.
The Tea Board of Kenya's 2025 figures in plain terms, and why selling a great deal to very few buyers is a weaker position than it looks.
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Why the Kenya-China tea conversation matters now
Zero tariffs cut one barrier to the Chinese market. Kenya's first-quarter shipments to China still fell. What sits between access and demand.
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