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East African Business Week<\/a> (Kampala)<\/p>\n

Flavia Nasaka<\/p>\n

10 July 2011<\/p>\n

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Kampala \u2014 Business owners dealing in African cultural wear and crafts have recorded a 30% drop in sales owing to the depreciating Shilling against the Dollar.<\/p>\n

Mr. Jackson Tumwebaze, who owns a crafts shop at the National Theatre is worried that sales will drop further as the Dollar rate rises. The Dollar is currently trading at Ugshs2,700 from Shs2,200 at the beginning of the year. This has caused a rise in prices of many items especially fuel and food making it difficult for people to buy items such as crafts which are considered luxuries.<\/p>\n

Tumwebaze who declined to pronounce his annual earnings from the business, says in June alone his sales have dropped by 30%. The target customers of such items are mostly tourists from the West who normally buy in dollars. With the fluctuating rates of the dollar, craft shops attendants have failed to establish a stable price for their commodities.<\/p>\n

“The increase in the Dollar has made us fail to get appropriate prices for the various items and this has highly affected the sales since some of the foreigners have abandoned our products because they think we are cheating them by not setting a uniform price,” said Mr. Charles Kunobwa a shop attendant at Uganda Small Scale Industries Association (USSIA) craft centre in Kampala.<\/p>\n

Crafts vendors fear that this might affect their annual earnings since these fluctuations have occurred in June the time they normally record high sales.<\/p>\n

“It’s in June that we make most sales because more foreigners flood into the country for their summer holidays and buy these items,” added Kunobwa.<\/p>\n

“The unrests that have recently been affecting Uganda had scared away some of our customers. Tourists have just started coming in and this means that it’s now that we have started making sales yet we are experiencing the Dollar increase to further reduce our earnings since some of our customers will be automatically laid off,” complained Ms Irene Maliza, owns a craft shop in Kampala.<\/p>\n

She said Ugandans are not the target for crafts because most of them find foreign products more attractive and also at times they know where to get these commodities other than buying from them.<\/p>\n

They mainly deal in commodities such as ‘kitenge’ (African clothes), African shoes, bags, crafts, beads, curving, Vaseline mainly made out of ghee and milk, earrings, African chairs and mats, decorations and necklaces. These commodities are mainly bought to be used by people as gifts to friends, sitting room decorations and others.<\/p>\n

Most of these products are got from local materials such as hides and skins, soak stone mainly got from karamoja region for craft carving, bamboo, sisal, elephant grass, banana fibers, and ghee among others.<\/p>\n

In addition to the Dollar increase, high craft prices have been caused by the increase in the price of hides and skins since most of these commodities such as carpets, bags and shoes are made out of hides.<\/p>\n

“Most of us have our own workshops where we make these products but now the price of raw materials such as hides is soon driving me out of business since people cannot afford buying at a very high price with the current economic crisis,” explained Ms Halima Nabiryo, a vendor at Crafts Africa in Kampala.<\/p>\n

Prices of African wear and crafts are most times higher than imported fabric mainly because these commodities because they are labour intensive and therefore command thorough attention during the process of production and they also need a lot of time to curve and make them attractive to the buyer.<\/p>\n

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