China is now Rwanda’s biggest export market – now comes the hard part
- In the first quarter of 2026, China became the leading destination for Rwandan exports, accounting for 26% of the total, compared with less than 5% just one year earlier.
- A spectacular shift, driven by the removal of Chinese tariffs on almost all Rwandan products.
- But on the ground, access to this market of 1.4 billion consumers depends less on tariffs than on meeting sanitary standards.
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- In the first quarter of 2026, China became the leading destination for Rwandan exports, accounting for 26% of the total, compared with less than 5% just one year earlier.
- A spectacular shift, driven by the removal of Chinese tariffs on almost all Rwandan products.
- But on the ground, access to this market of 1.4 billion consumers depends less on tariffs than on meeting sanitary standards.
Sources: France 24