The town, together with its sister city Busia, Kenya across
the border, are busy commercial centers with heavy commercial traffic in both
directions. Goods from Uganda include cash crops like coffee, cotton and timber destined
for the Kenyan port of Mombasa for export. Foodstuffs like fish, bananas, pineapples and mangoes, maize, beans, groundnuts, sorghum destined
for the Kenyan market also come across. In the opposite direction, Uganda imports petroleum
products, manufactured goods and household
