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THE WORKSHOP TO PULGARIZE THE SIMPLIFIED COMMERCIAL REGIME-RECOS LAUNCHED THIS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2025 IN KINSHASA BY MINISTER JULIEN PALUKU KAHONGYA

After ratifying the World Trade Organization-WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement last July, the Democratic Republic of Congo is further consolidating its integration into international trade; the popularization workshop of the Simplified Commercial Regime-RECOS which grants several facilities to small cross-border traders and populations living along the borders, was launched this Thursday, December 11, 2025 in Kinshasa by the Minister of Foreign Trade, Julien Paluku Kahongya.
The provincial Ministers of Commerce of North Kivu, South Kivu, Ituri, Haut-Katanga and Luaba, the heads of the provincial divisions of Foreign Trade, the heads of import-export offices, representatives of small cross-border traders and public services concerned including the General Directorate of Customs and Excise-DGDA, the Congolese Control Office-OCC, the General Directorate of Migration-DGM are equipped on the Simplified Commercial Regime-RECOS, the agreement on trade facilitation-AFE, the dematerialization of procedures in import, export and transit operations of goods as well as commercial diplomacy.

The Minister of Commerce informed the participants that the commercial diplomacy carried out by the DRC under the leadership of the President of the Republic, Félix Tshisekedi is based on 4 pillars including economic diversification, market diversification, the development of value chains and the development of infrastructures while adding that the country has sealed strategic partnerships with the World Trade Organization-WTO through the Reinforced Integrated Framework-CIR, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, UNCCD and the International Trade Center-CCI, fallout from the ratification of the TFA.

This initiative of the Congolese Government is highly welcomed by the Coordinator of associations and cooperatives of small cross-border traders in the DRC, Michel Djamba Longomo.

This 2-day workshop benefits from technical and financial support from Trade Mark Africa funded by the European Union and the United Kingdom.