A permanent exhibition of Algerian products will be opened in Ivory Coast in the coming weeks as part of efforts to promote national products and strengthen exports in West Africa, the Minister of Commerce and Trade announced Monday in Algiers. Export promotion, Tayeb Zitouni.
The announcement was made at the opening of an information day on the 2024 finance law for economic operators, organized by the Algerian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CACI), in the presence of the Minister of Finance, Laaziz Faid, the president of the CACI, Kamel Hamani, and the president of the Algerian Economic Renewal Council (CREA), Kamel Moula, reports APS.
Mr. Zitouni specified, in his speech, that the opening of this permanent exhibition in Côte d’Ivoire “will be followed by similar exhibitions in other African countries”, evoking the success of the permanent exhibitions launched last year in Mauritania and Senegal.
The minister invited economic operators to participate in these permanent exhibitions, which are intended to be promotion and distribution platforms available to exporters, he said, also encouraging them to “actively participate” in exhibitions and other events. economic that “Algeria intends to organize abroad”.
The minister welcomed, in this context, the decision of the President of the Republic, Mr. Abdelmadjid Tebboune, to reopen the Special Fund for the promotion of exports to support exporters through the management of a part of the transport costs and registration fees of companies for exhibitions abroad.
He indicated that the ministry was working on updating the executive decrees linked to this Special Fund in line with the expectations of exporters in order to encourage them to invest in foreign markets.
He also called on businessmen to join in force the chambers of commerce and industry and to be active in joint business councils so that they can be a force of proposal, he said, noting that the CACI had been responsible for boosting the role of business councils to develop foreign trade and forge fruitful partnerships to promote commercial and economic exchanges.
Mr. Zitouni also welcomed the decision giving the body responsible for registering legal and natural persons in the national file of fraudsters the possibility of temporarily lifting the ban on foreign trade operations for the benefit of operators who have initiated foreign trade operations (import-export) before their registration in this file, “to remove the obstacles encountered by economic operators”.
