LAUNCH OF TRAINING FOR EXPERTS FROM THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN TRADE TO BOOST THE SECTOR
Experts from structures under the supervision of the Ministry of Foreign Trade have been training since Monday in Kinshasa, with the aim of strengthening their capacities to consolidate the implementation of the
National Strategy for Export Promotion and Market Diversification-SPED and how to take advantage of the various trade agreements already signed by the Democratic Republic of Congo.
For Professor Youyou Baende Bofota,
Coordinator of the Permanent Committee for Monitoring and Evaluation of Reforms, Trade Agreements and the Implementation of the National Strategy for Export Promotion and Market Diversification CORASPED which provides this training, the promotion of exports in the 85 key sectors identified in the DRC, 23 of which are traditional, must go through the promotion of the added value of mining, agricultural, fishing and livestock products but also wood, with emphasis on 7 criteria in particular the speed of reorganization of the sector, the technological requirements of the product, access to private and public financing, control of health and phytosanitary requirements, the identification of products according to special economic zones, the logistics chain therefore the mode of delivery and conservation and the existence of commercial agreements concerning the product in order to maximize regional and sub-regional opportunities
Giving the go of this training on behalf of the Minister of Foreign Trade, Julien Paluku Kahongya, Onésime Sadiki his Deputy Chief of Staff insisted on the need for the involvement of sectoral ministries to properly strengthen the implementation of the National Strategy for Export Promotion and Market Diversification-SPED
For 5 days, experts from the National Agency for the Promotion of Exports- ANAPEX, the Congolese Control Office-OCC, the One-Stop Shop for Foreign Trade-SEGUCE, the National Mercuiriales Commission-CNM, CORASPED and others will be equipped on several themes which augur the evaluation of the degree of implementation of the SPED
