11TH EDITION OF EXPOBÉTON 2026 IN KALEMIE: PANEL: FACILITATION OF INVESTMENTS, EXCHANGES, IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF GOODS: INTERVENTION BY THE EXPERT JULES MWILU MBOO, REPRESENTING THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN TRADE
Speaking this Thursday, May 28, 2026 at the 11th edition of ExpoBéton RDC 2026, in the panel "Facilitation of investments, trade, imports and exports of goods", representing the Minister of Foreign Trade, Julien Paluku Kahongya, the Chief Expert in International Trade at the Ministry of Foreign Trade, Jules Mwilu Mboo, gave details on the main actions and important reforms undertaken by the Congolese Government to sustainably improve the competitiveness of products made in DRC on regional and international markets and the consolidation of the integration of the DRC into world trade, in accordance with the fundamental principles of the World Trade Organization-WTO, as well as significant progress in improving the business climate to further leverage investments
To remove obstacles to the competitiveness of the DRC's exports, and this, according to the vision of the President of the Republic, Félix Tshisekedi, the Government has placed emphasis on the simplification of administrative procedures linked to Foreign Trade, with the implementation of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement, the creation and operationalization of the National Trade Facilitation Committee-CNFE and the establishment of the Portal of Commercial Information-PIC, which should allow economic operators to access reliable information on the DRC's Foreign Trade, in real time, wherever you are, indicated Expert Jules Mwilu Mboo.
Speaking of the reduction of costs and border crossing times, the Congolese State launched the establishment, finalization and modernization of one-stop border posts and the rationalization of border services, but also, the dematerialization of commercial formalities through the GUICE, with the complete operationalization of the Comprehensive Single Window for Foreign Trade, the GUICE-DGDA interconnection and the reduction of paper procedures, as well as the reduction of non-tariff barriers and the regulation of cross-border trade flows with the harmonization of commercial procedures and the implementation of the Simplified Commercial Regime-RECOS, which grants several facilities to small cross-border traders added the Representative of the Minister of Foreign Trade
To take advantage of the various markets conquered by the Ministry of Foreign Trade including Chinese, British, Emirati, European and American with the renewal of AGOA, the Government with its partners Britsh Standards Institute and TradeMark Africa has strengthened the training of local producers and exporters on compliance with sanitary and phytosanitary standards, he concluded.
Note that “Kalemie, capital of lithium and strategic crossroads at the heart of the East, South and West African corridors” is the theme for this 11th edition of ExpoBéton.
