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MINISTRY OF FOREIGN TRADE: TECHNICAL MEETING WITH ANAPEX EXPERTS ON IMPLEMENTING STRATEGIES TO INCREASE EXPORTS OF PRODUCTS MADE IN DRC ON WORLD MARKETS

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The establishment of a task force made up of experts from sectoral ministries including Agriculture, Rural Development, Industry, Foreign Trade, Environment and specialized technical services including the Congolese Control Office-OCC for certification, to thus increase exports of products made in DRC on the various markets conquered by the Congolese Government via the Ministry of Foreign Trade, throughout the world including Chinese with an order of 180,000 tonnes of dried peppers and 50,000 cocoa per year, British with 99.8% of Congolese products exempt from customs duties and Emirati with 6,000 products made in DRC, but also the contribution of the integration of the DRC into the global governance of the cocoa sector, with the promulgation of the law on the ratification of the International Cocoa Agreement; this point was at the center of a technical meeting this Tuesday, August 4, 2026 in Kinshasa between the Minister of Foreign Trade, Julien Paluku Kahongya and experts from the National Agency for the Promotion of Exports-ANAPEX headed by the Director General, Mike Tambwe.

On this occasion, ANAPEX proposed actions to the Government to facilitate the compliance of Congolese products including cocoa, coffee, palm oil, rubber, soy, sesame, wood and their derivatives with the new European Union regulation against deforestation which comes into force in January 2027; thus the traceability of products made in DRC with the geo-location of agricultural zones will be put into play, said the Director General of ANAPEX.