How to Choose a Reliable Exporter in Kenya & East Africa (and Avoid Import Scams)
A practical checklist to verify suppliers, spot scams and protect your payments.
Read guide โRegional sourcing ยท Kenya as your hub
We help international buyers source products from across East and Central Africa โ not just Kenya. One partner for supplier verification, quality control, export documents and shipping to your port.
Goods keep their true country of origin and are exported with that country's certificates. Kenya is used as the logistics, inspection and consolidation hub where it is the best route โ most landlocked East and Central African trade already moves through Mombasa.
Choose a country to see its products, types, specifications, growing regions, export routes and documents.
Tea, Arabica coffee, Hass avocados, avocado oil, cut flowers, fresh vegetables, macadamia, minerals and gemstones, apparel and manufactured goods โ sourced and shipped directly by our Nairobi team.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo holds some of Africa's richest agricultural land and mineral deposits โ Kivu Arabica coffee, fine-flavour cocoa, copper and cobalt from the Katanga copper belt, tin, tantalum and tungsten from the east, and tropical hardwoods from the Congo Basin.
Tanzania is East Africa's largest country and a major exporter of cashew nuts, sesame, pulses, Kilimanjaro coffee, Zanzibar cloves, tea, avocados, sisal, Nile perch and world-unique tanzanite.
Uganda โ 'the Pearl of Africa' โ is Africa's largest Robusta coffee exporter and a supplier of Bugisu Arabica, Bourbon vanilla, cocoa, Nile perch, sesame, shea butter, tea and fresh and dried fruits.
Rwanda, 'the land of a thousand hills', produces some of Africa's finest specialty coffee and high-grown tea, along with traceable tin, tantalum and tungsten, and fresh horticulture.
Ethiopia โ the birthplace of Arabica coffee โ is Africa's top coffee producer and a major exporter of sesame, pulses, niger seed, cut flowers, honey and beeswax, and fine sheepskin leather.
Burundi is a small, mountainous origin producing outstanding washed Bourbon specialty coffee and high-grown tea, both prized by specialty buyers.
Sudan is the world's largest producer of gum arabic and a major exporter of sesame, groundnuts, hibiscus (karkadeh), cotton and live sheep and goats to the Gulf.
South Sudan offers wild-harvested gum arabic, Nilotica shea nuts and butter, sesame and groundnuts โ natural, low-input products from one of Africa's least developed farming regions.
Somalia is one of the world's biggest exporters of live goats, sheep and camels, the leading source of frankincense and myrrh, and a supplier of sesame and Indian Ocean seafood.
Tell us the product, variety, quantity, Incoterm (FOB / CIF / CFR / DAP) and your destination port or airport. We reply with a formal quotation, usually within one business day.